18 May
2006
18 May
'06
5:27 a.m.
On Wed, 17 May 2006, patv(a)monmouth.com wrote:
I have heard some grumblings of TOG possibly releasing
CDE as open source,
but have no idea of where that stands. To be perfectly frank, it had a
lot of problems, especially in a 64-bit world. There were too many word
size assumptions, and a very good friend struggled for many, many hours
fixing those problems before it went to DEIL in India for support. It
could probably still benefit from a good �many eyes� developer review and
bug fix session in the hands of open source developers. However, IMHO, it
no longer has any advantage over KDE or Gnome, but, as I said, that is my
opinion.
It's not a matter of advantage so much as it's been a de-facto standard
for so long and I'd just like to work with it even if it's just a clone
like Lesstif.
OSF1/Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX was already branded as
UNIX, and it would be
fun to see what would happen to the landscape if a branded UNIX was free.
Unfortunately, too many proprietary licensed pieces of code in the HP
version, especially in System V support, for that to ever happen. Oh well,
we can all dream �
Well, there is the Solaris stuff, and some of it's gone into Heirloom,
which I believe is an attempt to bring together the existing open-sourced
Unix code, and bring it up to date. And I think Lesstif is a good enough
clone of Motif for the majority of programs, in the way that Linux is of
Unix, or am I wrong?
-uso.