[FWD] Petition to Open Source CDE and Motif

[Michael Smith]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:40:44 +0200
Joerg Fischer <jf505 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Bert Wesarg wrote (to the NEdit developer list):
> 
> > Have a look at this site:
> > 
> > http://www.marutan.net/cde/
> > 
> 
> So far roughly a thousand folks have signed this petition.  Is
> anyone on this list who really is against an open source Motif 
> and CDE?
> 
> Otherwise, shouldn't the NEdit project join in the petition to
> support it some more?

Well, partly open sourcing openmotif was a disaster for the existing open source motif project. Its hard to believe there still wouldn't be strings attached.

And CDE, for me, is about the worst desktop environment out there. If I want something light I will use fvwm. For something nice there is gnome, kde and xfce.

I actually think its a noble goal to ask for these things to be open sourced, I am just not very enthusiastic about it.
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