[desktop-discuss] Re: Open Source CDE petition.

[Peter Howkins]

> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Sun hasn't been pushing for it since we'd rather
> spend our limited desktop resources on GNOME instead.
> Presumably the other co-owners are in similar situations
> (most have pretty much ended their Unix desktops and
> moved to Windows and/or Linux on the desktop).

I'd hope that if Sun or the other contributors were
no longer deriving a commercial benifit from it
being closed, that they wouldn't object to CDE
being open sourced if they were asked.

But I can understand that Sun would want
to concentrate on just one desktop.

Peter
 
 
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