In reference to Ian’s post about…
…was the fact that the majority of the audience claimed they looked at the open source code and 30-40% actually modified it…
I would be more curious to learn what percentage of companies out there that ship on top of Eclipse and modify core Eclipse code. What I mean by core Eclipse code, is code that is included in an Eclipse plug-in that you need to modify in order for it to ship for your product. An example would be say you had a dependency on the wonderful CVS plug-in and were waiting for a fix (or enhancement) but it wouldn’t make your ship date so you had to roll your own fixes in. I think this could be used as an interesting metric to see how well Eclipse is responding to community needs.