Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:41:59 +0100 From: Tom Brown <Tom@mercia.com> To: "'Tim Pushor'" <timp@orion.ab.ca>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Message-ID: <9500FBE37C19D1118D2200A0C907E0A530E33B@MERCIA_2>
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Ok I admit I'm new to this GNU stuff so these questions are going to sound realy trivial but: Why bother to realease this source into the public domain if you then have to go out and buy the the software neccessary to build it? It was my impression that the whole point of the free release was to encorage tranee programmers like myself to get into the product a zero cost and later proliferate it in the workplace under a licence (Honesty allowing). Confused ! Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Pushor [SMTP:timp@orion.ab.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:21 PM > To: John Birrell > Cc: Tom Brown; freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) > > John Birrell wrote: > > > Tom Brown wrote: > > > Just as soon as I find out where I can get a copy of Motif that > doesn't cost > > > $1200 or get the correct lib's. > > > > US$149 from www.xig.com > > Hmmm I purchased this Motif 2.0 from XIG some time ago when FreeBSD > release level > was at 2.1.7. As soon as I upgraded to 2.2 (and the corresponding XFree86 > release) it broke Motif. Things would still build but would very often > dump core. > XIG's solution was to use the XFree release from 2.1.7 and if I needed the > newer > video drivers from the newer releases to just use the newer releases > server, and > the old releases libs. I had Motif running for about 30 days before it did > not > get installed again on any of my machines.. > > They aren't even answering my email anymore about a newer version of > Motif. > > Has anyone else had similar experiences? > > Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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