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CDE Open Sourced

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Re: CDE Open Sourced

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Post by SwellJoe »

I remember when CDE was awesome. It was not during this decade, er, century...

I think it would be useful for us to all pause and think about what being on the right side of history looks like. CDE could have gone open source back in the 90s and been extremely relevant and useful. I'm glad it's happened because I think there's value in having an accurate and complete software archaelogical history...but I doubt anyone will be digging into this as a project to do current work on.

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Post by Flow »

Slightly off-topic:

What if they open sourced Open Step? Is that even possible to do? Would that change open source Un*x desktops forever or would no-one care?

Re: CDE Open Sourced

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Post by rjsw »

spudlyo wrote: post #4
opminion wrote: post #2

Just what we needed, a timely contribution to help bring Linux to the desktop. /sarcasm

Maybe soon we'll have open source Motif, then I'll finally be able to not give a shit . Funny timing though, I'm pretty sure I saw a Motif app or two on one of the screens at NASA during the Curiosity landing.

What is wrong with Open Motif: http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ ?

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Post by zokier »

Flow wrote: post #24

Slightly off-topic: What if they open sourced Open Step? Is that even possible to do? Would that change open source Un*x desktops forever or would no-one care?

I doubt that it would have significant impact. There is already GNUstep which is GNU implementation/clone of OpenStep.

Re: CDE Open Sourced

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Post by Gmo »

madrona wrote: post #10

Bad memories of writing CS assignments on overtaxed Sun workstations, with that crap WM. I fetishized those expensive purple boxes until I had to use one.

Exactly the same experience here ... Can't say I'm a big fan of CDE, but it was obviously from the previous decade ...

Re: CDE Open Sourced

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Post by Argorak »

gt384u wrote: post #16
owyn wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sourceforge was great back in the day when it was the only (?) option for public code hosting besides running your own site, but it's not as "cool" now... it feels like most projects have left, only abandoned projects remain. Putting a "new" project there seems strange. I don't know if that's due to functionality or not though, maybe it's just that the UI feels dated. Even with free offerings, people pay attention to…

I had a conversation with a senior engineer on SourceForge where he pointed out that most people forget that developers are actually a minority of their business: most of their users are nontechnical people that come to them to download binaries of things like zip utilities.

It may be true that download users are their business, but developers certainly are the drivers of the site. They produce the content.

Even then, the downloading experience is warped straight from the 90s.

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