A new project management application known as Mr Project has been announced . Mr Project is a project management program that can help build project plans, and track the progress of a project. This week's People Behind KDE features an interview of Wolfram Diestel , a rather humorous picture is included. New KDE Tutorials . Regardless of whether you accept this 'infant industry' justification for initially releasing software under proprietary licenses, from a software developer's point of view it now seems hard to improve upon Trolltech's licensing.
Many people complain about the X-windows standard.
It's clearly not the perfect way to bring a graphical user interface to Linux, and it's been around for such a long time. Recently XFree86 has become hardware accelerated, in version 4.0.x, but in many ways it is still dragging user interface designers down. The core principle which is starting to develop between Sun and community is that of communication. I think you can already see that numerous members of Sun's technical and marketing staff are beginning to participate more freely. I am sure you are aware that Sun has been a consistent contributer of code to open systems, and we are continuing this same strategy, aligned to the trends of current open source practices.