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Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment

Posted by timothy on from the don't-forget-who-pays-for-your-mantra dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Enlightenment window manager project has shared on its website that it now has the backing of a major (top-five) electronics manufacturer that will be actively sponsoring the project and using Enlightenment on its devices. No manufacturer was named, but Phoronix has dug deeper and found out that Samsung is sponsoring Enlightenment. Phoronix provides independent confirmation along with citing a new Enlightenment program that Samsung sponsored and then released under the LGPL-3. They also have videos of some of the new work to this window manager that Samsung funded."

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  1. Wow! by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment

    That's pretty ambitious. ;-)

    So, a Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor, and says "make me one with everything". :-P

    Cheers

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    1. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment

      That's pretty ambitious. ;-)

      So, a Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor, and says "make me one with everything". :-P

      Cheers

      The vendor hands him a fully loaded hot dog, and the Buddhist hands him a $20.
      After a few moments, the Buddhist asks for his change, and the hot dog vendor replies, "change must come from within".

    2. Re:Wow! by roystgnr · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's pretty ambitious.

      No, no, Samsung isn't funding an attempt to develop the attainment of a blessed state in which their customers can transcend desire and suffering and achieve Nirvana. That would be nearly impossible.

      Samsung is funding an attempt to develop for their customers a completed version of the Enlightenment Window Manager. That will be completely impossible.

  2. Scooped by d34dluk3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enlightenment already developed by Rousseau, Diderot, and Voltaire, among others.

  3. Excellent! by Jerrry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now maybe we'll see the final release of E17 before the 22nd century. Who knows, it may even come out before Duke Nukem Forever.

    1. Re:Excellent! by kwiqsilver · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now maybe we'll see the final release of E17 before the 22nd century. Who knows, it may even come out before Duke Nukem Forever.
      I'm sure the first thing Rasterman will do with this new funding is begin a complete rewrite of e from scratch. So once Mitsubishi starts sponsoring Duke Nukem, it'll be a tight race.

    2. Re:Excellent! by MrHanky · · Score: 3, Funny

      First they would have to re-implement Duke Nukem Forever. From scratch. DNF has always been the main dependency of Enlightenment. Remember when Rasterman ditched his entire EVAS library and starter again? It coincided with DNF's switch from the Quake engine to Unreal Engine. Every setback in E17's development has coincided with similar setbacks in DNF.

  4. Re:v2.0? by Disgruntled+Goats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes it's true that Linux's greatest failing was it didn't have enough DEs!

  5. Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already by osu-neko · · Score: 2, Funny

    And just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it sucks. How old is TCP/IP? The mouse? The binary system?

    Would you believe my car still uses wheels?! You know how old that technology is? You would think by now we'd have something better for rolling on... XD

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