According to insiders, there’s a good chance that the X Consortium will get itself a commercial life and pick up a slew of subcontracting work from the new-fangled Open Software Foundation Pre-Structured Technology process to do future Common Desktop Environment/Motif development – when the new Software Foundation works out if and how it should progress and merge the technologies. Now separated from its Massachusetts Institute of Technology birthplace, the X Consortium, repository of the soul of the X Window System environment, has yet to make the leap to becoming a truly commercial operation. It is said to be talking about merging with XIA, the lacklustre X Industry Association, which ironically was formed to market and promote the X Window System because its backers considered that the X Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute wasn’t doing the job properly.
