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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. Scooped by d34dluk3 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. E17 is pretty stable now by jlowe · · Score: 5, Informative
    While news on the site may have been sparse, quite a lot of work has been going on with E17 development. The developers had released a roadmap showing that perhaps it would be ready for a Christmas release. While I doubt that milestone will be achieved, it has made significant progress.

    I've been using it for months as my desktop at home and on my laptop. It is quite usable and I've had zero crashes for a while now. Rasterman has always had a focus on small-screen devices, so this development doesn't surprise me. But if you haven't checked it out in a while, you should.

  3. Re:LGPL-3? by Disgruntled+Goats · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, being BSD licensed, you can release a fork under a new license I believe since BSD is a permissive license.

    The reverse, however, would not be true.

    What you believe is wrong. The BSD doesn't let you change the license terms of the source code at your will. You must have permission from the copyright holder(s) to do so.

  4. 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".

  5. 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.