Eclipse and NetBeans are world class software Integrated Developement Environments. Both are free.
But the “free” of today is different from the “free” of “yesterday”. Free today brings with it the right of copyright owners to spy on monitor usage of their software.
Eclipse says “you agreed to monitoring” when you accepted the license agreement. NetBeans annoys you with teeny-tiny pop-ups about their desire to monitor your software activities.
More and more, the Internet is getting to be the place to gather information about American habits, choices, politics, software preferences, hardware preferences and the like. America’s computers – connected to the Internet – can paint a profile of the computer user.
No longer is there a need to trek door to door or do telephone canvasing to get information on what America is doing.
In the software field, going back to the IDEs dedicated to a single rather than multiple software programs is starting to look attractive again.
