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"I don't see any great examples of building successful open source communities from IBM, [...]"

What about Eclipse?

Love it or loathe it, it's certainly been successful.

Sure, apart from their attempt to control the Java ecosystem being that old, it doesn't leave me with confidence that they are as committed to open source as Redhat.

This sounds harsh, and I don't mean to be, but only time will tell how OpenJDK/Open J9 fares.

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