From: Niall (niall at domain magicgoeshere.com)
Date: Mon 15 May 2000 - 19:51:42 IST
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:52:00PM +0100, C Hennessy wrote:
> I wonder also will this affect the uptake of KDE or GNOME in some of the more
> traditional UNIX suppliers ?
Not at all, one way or the other, I would think. The openness or closedness
of Motif is not relevant to traditional UNIX suppliers - AFAIR they pay a
once off license fee (and it's not terribly high) to The Open Group for the
right to use Motif so its being open won't make much difference to them -
they'll stick with Motif or switch to KDE/Gnome for other reasons. Anyway,
haven't all the traditional UNIX suppliers switched to CDE by now - at least
Sun & HP have, and I think Compaq (Digital) and IBM too.
Regards,
Niall O Broin
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