As a developer of commercial software I appreciate the solid standard that CDE provides accross platforms. It is not perfect by any stretch but it simplifies things to be able to expect the same desktop everywhere. That said, I use fvwm2 for all of my personal hosts.
To get a better feel for the issue consider other products and their users. If a drunk driver kills a pedestrian can we sue GM for making the car? If someone uses a steak knife to kill or maim another person can we sue tramontina for making the knife? If I wrote "rm" can someone sue me when their disk gets wiped?
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As a developer of commercial software I appreciate the solid standard that CDE provides accross platforms. It is not perfect by any stretch but it simplifies things to be able to expect the same desktop everywhere. That said, I use fvwm2 for all of my personal hosts.
To get a better feel for the issue consider other products and their users. If a drunk driver kills a pedestrian can we sue GM for making the car? If someone uses a steak knife to kill or maim another person can we sue tramontina for making the knife? If I wrote "rm" can someone sue me when their disk gets wiped?
I enjoy using the computers that were named by fook and lunkwill from HHGTTG...
pondermatic (a slow SOlaris x86 box)
gargantubrain
omni-cognate
maximegalon
deepthought
earth
neutronwrangler
perspicutron
other HHGTTG
magrathea (my solaris development box)
prefect (the linux box - it is an alien here)
I have used Star Office and find it an excellent
tool, although a little overweight (IMHO).
Don't you just love Sun.