Plenty of people are talking about the bittersweet celebration that was IBM ConnectED 2015 in Orlando this past week. I agree that in many ways, this was the best Lotusphere ever, as the attendees were focused on making the most out of an event that will likely never be again. IBM was much less overbearing than in the past, focusing on Verse and Bluemix without the kind of announcement-gavage we used to choke on all week.

My friend and administrator-extraordinaire Chris Miller objects to IBM’s decision to publish the Domino Eclipse Update Site template under the Apache License on OpenNTF.org. We’ll get to the specifics about his objection in a moment, but I wanted to start…