<quote who="Scott Howard">

> In what way is Solaris proprietary?
> 

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=proprietary -

proprietary
   1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of a proprietor or to proprietors as a
   group: had proprietary rights; behaved with a proprietary air in his
   friend's house.
   2. Exclusively owned; private: a proprietary hospital.
   3. Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark
      or patent: a proprietary drug.

> Sun will _not_ be replacing CDE with Gnone anytime soon, and most likely
> not ever. They _will_ be including Gnone in addition to CDE in one of the
> Solaris 9 maintenance updates (which will not be a point release - Sun
> haven't done point releases for years).
> 

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/ds-sol8oe/index.html

Desktop features

As part of a continued commitment to interoperability and open source, Sun
plans to adopt the easy-to-use GNOME user environment as the future desktop
of the Solaris platform.

J.
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Jan Schmidt                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Don't Panic" -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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