At OCX, Eclipse Foundation’s Open Community Exchange conference, attendees met to discuss the Eclipse Foundation and what it means to be an open-source developer. The Eclipse Foundation leans heavily towards organizations that develop open source, not the individual developer. Corporate sponsors included Huawei (showing their open-source Oniro OS and Canjie development language for mobile), SAP, and RedHat. The consistent theme throughout discussion of funding models, regulation, AI, and the health of individual open-source projects is that businesses continue to rely heavily on open source. Funding And The Vendor-Neutral Vendor The biggest announcement at OCX was not a new tool. Instead, it was a new model for its future existence. Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, announced that OpenVSX is now available as a product. This comes from Eclipse Theia, a modern IDE and framework which incorporates parts of Visual Studio Code, and particularly its plugin framework.…