[bernardwilson]

The fight was over control.

The trademark issue meant that it didn't matter what the community wanted, it could be 1,000,000 : 1 against, if the 1 was Oracle, they could stop (or force) anything they wanted.

Commercial interests had wanted to move to Eclipse before. Most developers see the Eclipse process as overly bureaucratic and unfriendly - and therefore were -1 on that.

The whole process has been an attempt to try to force-feed the development community into eclipse, whether they like it or not. Because they hold the trademark, they have the control.

Well, thing is, eclipse was disliked before, and it is disliked now. I seriously doubt any devs will be considering it.