>Do you really think that anything will happen here? It is not the >first time that someone begs for making Solaris CDE opensource or at >least accessible under NDA to allow customers/users do fixes and >improvements. For example Roland Mainz requested it multiple times, >backed by our university which was willing to sponsor a project with >both money, resources and personal (Roland Mainz, Tanja Pradetch, me >and three students, AFAIK more people than Sun currently uses to >maintain both CDE and Motif in Solaris). So far no one at Sun seemed >to be interested.
I don't think that will specifically happen here, certainly not any time soon. But I think if enough people bug both TOG and the contributing companies, it could happen. Insofar as they aren't promoting CDE, they're not making money off of it, yet they have to maintain it for backwards compatibility. If it were more or less open, more maintenance could get done for no additional investment on their part. Happier customers, more repeat business... -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.smart.net/~rlhamil Lasik/PRK theme music: "In the Hall of the Mountain King", from "Peer Gynt" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
