Re: Pas libre

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

http://www.marutan.net/cde/
http://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

Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on megaupload, and let the rest of the world ~~mirror~~ link to it