Fw: The Open Source CDE and Motif petition, an update

To the list:

Apropos of the proposed fedora core 8/Alpha project:  A
bunch of Tru64 and VMS
users petitioned for an open-sourcing of the CDE desktop. 
Just in time to
console us for not having KDE 4.0 available.

jn


---------- Forwarded Message -----------
From: Peter Howkins <peter.howkinsmarutan.net>
To: thursdayallidaho.com
Sent: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:15:05 UT
Subject: The Open Source CDE and Motif petition, an update

This is an update to the "Petition to Open Source CDE
and Motif"

http://www.marutan.net/cd
e/
h
ttp://www.petitiononline.com/opencde/petition.html

I have recently been in discussions with The Open Group
after they have
had a chance to review the petition. They have been
generally positive
and would be willing to support both an Open Source CDE and
Motif if a
couple of practical issues can be resolved.

CDE, The Open Group is investigating whether they own the
complete rights
to release CDE as Open Source. If they can release it, they
will.

Motif brings The Open Group a sizable income in licensing
revenue 
and since they operate as a non-profit, would cause some
difficulty 
if it suddenly went away. The Open Group are willing to Open
Source 
it provided they can make up that revenue in the short term.
Without 
doing so The Open Group's management can be held accountable
by its 300+
members for not acting in their best interests.

Several different ways are being investigated to find this
revenue but if
you, personally or on behalf of a company, would be
interested in financially
sponsoring this project, it might help make up any
shortfall. Please get in
touch if you could help out in this way.

I will keep you informed when more information comes in, and
I thank you
for signing the petition, your support has been persuasive.

Yours sincerely

Peter Howkins

You have received this mail because you signed the Open
Source CDE and
Motif petition. If you would not like to receive anymore
updates, please
email me, and I will remove you from the contact list.
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