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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2000 11:13:29 -0400
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Motif goes open source 
Message-ID:  <200005151514.LAA20258@etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <4701.958389202@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 20:10:29 %2B0900."             <391FDB25.D7FB808F@newsguy.com>

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At 01:13 PM 5/15/00 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>Since X11 is an optional (3rd party even) component of FreeBSD,
>the license on Motif is not really a big issue: it will always be
>a port in FreeBSD, it will not be part of the base system.
>
>We have other ports with far weirder licenses.
>
>Only too bad it took them 10 years to realize what the key to a
>success in the UNIX world is :-(

That is, if your definition of "success" is wide-spread use rather than
profits....

I think that Sun and Oracle are doing rather well.

DB
Emerging Technologies, Inc.
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