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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:33:31 -0700
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Motif not available?
Message-ID:  <19990428233331.A56886@ontario.mooseriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904290609.AAA13144@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 12:09:42AM -0600
References:  <Pine.GS4.4.02.9904291019450.26832-100000@torrent> <199904290541.XAA13017@mt.sri.com> <19990428230624.A56726@ontario.mooseriver.com> <199904290609.AAA13144@mt.sri.com>

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On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 12:09:42AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > According to the web page:
> > > > 
> > > > "These releases are compiled against a Motif library that is permissible
> > > > to distribute with JDK."
> > > > 
> > > > The link does not exist. 
> > > 
> > > There's a link there?  Dang, I just re-worded that sentence to remove
> > > that link, since XIG no longer supplies a FreeBSD Motif.
> > 
> > I spoke to several people at XIG about Motif for FreeBSD 3.x. They assured
> > me they are working on a version and will be shipping at the beginning of
> > this summer.
> 
> I find that interesting re: this summer when a number of private
> individuals with Motif licenses had a working version about 2 weeks
> after 3.0 went ELF.  I work in the field, and it doesn't take that long
> to port a static piece of software that requires few if any changes from
> the stuff in 2.2. :(

I agree but what the hell do I know, I'm just a lowly software engineer.

> 
> But, maybe I'm just being cynical. :) :) :)

I would never have guessed ;-)


Josef

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