On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Brent Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Pouar wrote:
>
>> On 11/22/2014 04:50 PM, Brent Busby wrote:
>>> Totally agree. I agree in spirit with the GPL, that software that is
>>> left completely free tends to end up becoming the basis of commercial
>>> projects that embrace, extend, and extinguish open ones...but does
>>> anyone who still wants to run CDE in 2014 care about that?
>>
>> It's becoming proprietary software you need to worry about, not
>> whether they charge money or not.
>
> Normally, I'd agree...but does any company really want CDE? I think the
> Open Group let us have it because they calculated that nobody cares.
>
I think that's absolutely true. It was already 'dead', so giving a
new life in the arms of enthusiats was a good move by TOG.
I would be seriously astonished if some company wanted to make some
kind of proprietary CDE product. I expect it wouldn't exist long :)
--
Jon Trulson
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