On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Pouar wrote: > On 11/22/2014 04:50 PM, Brent Busby wrote: >> Totally agree. I agree in spirit with the GPL, that software that is >> left completely free tends to end up becoming the basis of commercial >> projects that embrace, extend, and extinguish open ones...but does >> anyone who still wants to run CDE in 2014 care about that? > > It's becoming proprietary software you need to worry about, not > whether they charge money or not.
Normally, I'd agree...but does any company really want CDE? I think the Open Group let us have it because they calculated that nobody cares. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
