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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. Kill the X Boondoggle Already by lobiusmoop · · Score: -1, Troll

    X is an over-engineered monstrous relic from the mid-80's, and the window-managers on top of it are lipstick-on-a-pig kludges. Hopefully Google will present something to potentially replace it with when they announce their Chrome OS tomorrow.

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  2. Hey Obamaheads, how's it going? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is Gitmo closed? How's that warrantless wiretapping thing going? Is the NSA still eavesdropping on your 1-900 calls? How's the stimulus package working out for you? What's that? China is making all of the wind turbines for T Boone Pickens' wind farm project? Stimulus money went to nonexistent congressional districts? How about lobbyists being banned from the White House, and from the administration altogether? How's that working out for you?