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CDE Open Sourced

Posted by samzenpus on from the set-it-free dept.

First time accepted submitter christurkel writes "CDE, the Common Desktop Project, has been open sourced by the Open Group. CDE was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. You can find the source here. It has been tested on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu. Testers are encouraged to join the project. Motif will follow in a few months once some legal issues are sorted out."

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  1. Let me be the first to say: GOOD JOB by tstrunk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So many negative posts here. So let me be the first to say: Good job!

    It's very good they open source it, even if only for legacy apps (Motif). The open-source code base for CDE is also nice to have in Patent lawsuits for prior art mining. It's nice they went out of their way to clear the legal issues, now that no money can be made anymore with either.

    So thanks to the Open Group!