From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 19 11:31:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00570 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-14.netcom.ca [207.181.94.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00559 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id PAA21526; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:30:31 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:30:31 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: mike allison cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@freebsd.org, Joel Ray Holveck Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought In-Reply-To: <335A6799.44830FC9@konnections.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, mike allison wrote: > The other issue here is the complicating factor. The reason I don't use > Star is the requirement for Motif at some level. Motif ain't free > neither, last time I checked......Or, does it just need some Libs that > are freely available....? Statically compiled...unless its just that I have lesstif installed that its working, but I believe I read that StarOffice for Linux is compiled statically so that the requirement for Motif libraries no longer exists... Motif libraries...another product for a commercial distribution CD? :) > I am not motivated for Star, per se, I like Applix and I think RedHat My motivation towards Star is that its probably about the best software that I've seen so far, for Unix, that compares with things like MS Office...again, if we could motivate developers, we might some day even see competition for Star on the Unix/FreeBSD platform *shrug* Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org