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Final War: CDE (cruddy desktop env.)
All toolkit innovation stopped
CDE was a political compromise, with resulting compromise of the underlying technology, and even more delay to market
Control of Motif, CDE, and 3D was out of the emperor's hands for most or all of this period
While UNIX fiddled on high end, niche markets, the barbarians stormed the empire, and overthrew Rome
The X Consortium closed in 1997
- Through the "Open Group", to X.org