It will take about 20 "C" programmers one year to build a decent GUI. I don't think Berlin has the resources to complete.
I think that there are many proprietary GUI's out there that did and do quite well. Windows has 300,000,000 adherents and it is not even multi tasking.
It is not the proprietariness of the code that hurts. It is the workability and the universality that counts. and the ease of coding for it. So far X does not qualify. There are many things to consider. Fonts, windows flexibility, reliability, hard copy congruency, code density, bandwidth, interoperability, memory use, graphics simplicity etc..
I am not sure that the point and click world is ready for Post Script printers and 600 megs libraries that "work" under X. Even KDE with the Applix office suite is 400 megs.
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