Re: [TCLUG:5666] VA Research buys LHS and Enlightenment

["Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson@gimp.org>]

The main author of E is Raster and he works at Red Hat Labs doing 
GNOME development.

One of the other major authors of E recently founded Enlightenment 
Solutions, so you can probably assume that E is used in some aspect 
of the business.

-Shawn


On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:16:24PM -0500, Neal Tovsen wrote:
> Does Mandrake have it's own interface? The article says "agreed to acquire
> Enlightenment Solutions, a supplier of open source graphical windowing
> software." That sounded a lot like the Enlightment WM to me, but I've never
> used anything relating to the Mandrake distro, so I could definitely be
> wrong.
> 
> Neal
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nathan Ahlstrom [mailto:nrahlstr@winternet.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 4:23 PM
> > To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:5666] VA Research buys LHS and Enlightenment
> >
> >
> > Neal Tovsen <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu> wrote:
> > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990429S0005
> > >
> > > Check it out: VA Research is purchasing Linux Hardware Systems AND
> > > Enlightenment Systems! Pretty wild, if you ask me. Didn't
> > they also get the
> > > Linux.com domain? Geez...and some are calling RedHat the
> > new Microsoft...
> > >
> > > Also, tell me if I read the article correctly. They say
> > they're buying
> > > Enlightenment Systems (who make the Enlightenment window
> > manager, right?)
> >
> > No.  They make one of the lesser known distributions.
> > Mandrake I think.
> >
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