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

[Moinak Ghosh]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Girts Zeltins wrote:
>> I will soon sent email to OpenGroup to talk about CDE open sourcing 
>> in this year and I want to think what will Sun do if CDE will be 
>> fully open sourced. I think then CDE will revive and there will be 
>> possible faster to improove it by community.
>
> I've failed to convince the Desktop management to even move from
> our closed source Motif 2.1 to OpenMotif - the only thing they
> want to do with CDE is stop spending resources on it so they can
> concentrate those resources on JDS.    Open sourcing CDE will
> just allow the removal of CDE from Solaris to happen faster, since
> then they can offer the open source release as an alternative to
> customers who still want it.

   There is one more issue here. Since JDS is the focus now, then
   Java/Swing/AWT on Solaris should stop using motif and switch
   over to Gtk+ as it does on Linux. This removes compatibility
   problems with other distributions. I had to hack OpenMotif source
   to make it work properly with Java on BeleniX.

   Obviously this is not a Java forum but just wanted to point out the
   issue.

Regards,
Moinak.