Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 06, 2004 02:58 AM
"It is not clear that Sun would have switched from CDE to Gnome if it hadn't been for the LGPL, and Sun has contributed a lot to Gnome."
The reasons for Sun using Gnome probably have more to do with the fact that the technical people at Sun are more comfortable with C and object-oriented C rather than C++ or anything else the rest of the world uses.
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Re:Pragmatic reasons
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 06, 2004 02:58 AMThe reasons for Sun using Gnome probably have more to do with the fact that the technical people at Sun are more comfortable with C and object-oriented C rather than C++ or anything else the rest of the world uses.
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