Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:35:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Edward Ing <edward.ing@utoronto.ca> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/Open Motif and XFree86 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961121232544.6387I-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <3294DD81.6108@utoronto.ca>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Edward Ing wrote: > Is it X/Open Motif standards compliant? How do you mean? There is only one source for Motif source code and the stuff X-Inside sells is from that one source, just like the Motif and CDE everyone else on the planet uses. If there are violations of a standard, they are the same violations every other vendor has.... > Second, its not Free or nearly free. Surprise! What did you expect? Motif has never been free. There is an effort underway to implement a freely distributable version of the Motif API (lesstif), but I gather it has a way to go before it could serve as a plug-in replacement for the "real" Motif. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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