[osol-discuss] Re: About Solaris (mistakes) and future

[Frank Hofmann]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, UNIX admin wrote:

>> 1_Do you ask to Sun if there are possibilities to
>> move his CDE (after end officially support) to
>> OpenSolaris as alternative and community support
>> desktop?
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> The problem with open sourcing CDE is that it is owned by *a pile* of companies, including IBM, hp, ... Just look at the credits and copyrights. Good luck to anyone trying to open source that.
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> And to bring CDE into the 21. century, one would need an army of skilled X/Motif engineers... good luck to anyone trying to find that too.
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> Oh yeah, and then there this Motif toolkit issue. It just so happens that CDE is built on top and with Motif, which just so happens to be a hardcore proprietary product... um, good luck on getting that opensourced too.

Well, in a way it is - see:

 	http://www.openmotif.org

just that about every CDE vendor spins their own version, and Motif isn't 
quite exactly equal to Motif ...

FrankH.

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> So, now that we got all these small insignificant hurdles listed... who's willing to dish out a few million dollars to get CDE and Motif open sourced? Out of one's private bank accounts, checking or savings -- I assure you, you can use both when paying up, no problem!
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