Open Source CDE
As a user - or former or potential user - of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) I believe there would be a benefit to releasing the source code to CDE and the Motif library under an OSI approved lic... continue reading »
"The industry needs a solid, lightweight desktop - CDE is a good candidate."
"As a one-time industry standard that many well-educated professionals know how to use, it desrves to survive and influence the development of Desktop Environments for quite some time. Open source is the best way to do that."
"Maybe Freedesktop.org can take resonsibility for this?"
"I think having CDE opensourced would be a benefit to the community. It is a DE that I currently use and would like to see developed in the future."
"I think this has a better chance than OS/2"
"The one true desktop environment that I'd love to have available."
"IBM UNIX Administrator"
"It's pointless to keep CDE closed now..."
"good idea - go on"
"It is an absolute truth, that CDE is what somebody needs!"
"And no, the current motif license is NOT acceptable."