Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1/7 Previous Document: 16)+ What happens to X? to Broadway? still free? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge What's happened is a recognition that the original mission of the X Consortium is largely complete, and that a full-fledged industry Consortium isn't really needed or even necessarily appropriate for ongoing maintenance of X. Under those circumstances, it makes sense to bundle X in with the other components of what has become the standard Unix desktop -- Motif and CDE -- and turn the whole package over to OSF and X/Open (aka The Open Group) for future maintenance. [thanks to Matt Landau (matt@x.org)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David B. Lewis faq%craft@uunet.uu.net "Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday User Contributions:Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1/7 Previous Document: 16)+ What happens to X? to Broadway? still free? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
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