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    9 months ago

    The KDE Plasma 6 open-source desktop environment

    Makes me wonder, are there closed-source desktop environments for Linux?

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      9 months ago

      You got me curious. I found this.

      “An example includes CDE (Common Desktop Environment), which was proprietary until 2012 before it was open-sourced. CDE was used in commercial UNIX versions like Solaris (before it became open source as OpenSolaris) and HP-UX.”

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      9 months ago

      Not surprisingly, North Korea’s Red Star OS has a closed source fork of KDE.

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      9 months ago

      It’s a good question. I don’t think there are any widely used ones, but I’d bet there are a few running around for internal use.

      I think that due to the nature of Linux in general the only ways to have a successful proprietary software package is by being a hardware vendor, owning a whole format that is widely used and needs to be licensed, or having pretty serious multiplatform support. Desktop environments don’t really fall under these.

      But I could be way the hell off the mark. I’m just a rambling drunk.

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        9 months ago

        Regarding internal use, if all the users of a piece of software can access the source code by asking to access it, then it’s open source, according to GNU.