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