From owner-freebsd-mozilla Tue Jun 9 07:01:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28161 for freebsd-mozilla-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 07:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hercules.orion.ab.ca (hercules.orion.ab.ca [207.134.218.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28149 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 07:01:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timp@orion.ab.ca) Received: from tpushor.shl.com ([159.249.40.234]) by hercules.orion.ab.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA08791; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:34:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <002001bd93e1$1e141840$ea28f99f@tpushor.shl.com> From: "Tim Pushor" To: "Tom Brown" , "John Birrell" Cc: Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 13:58:23 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, this is rather off topic but I highly doubt Netscape's intention was to release the code so that Trainee programmers could get their feet wet ;-) I do agree with the fact that Free Software should try to not use Motif if at all possible. I am surprised by the fact that the Hungry programmers are not using the release of Mozilla as an opportunity to polish their Motif clone code. This would give them a significant amount of exposure, and maybe they wouldn't be hungry any more :) BTW GNU is a completely different thing... Tim -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brown To: 'Tim Pushor' ; John Birrell Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 8:14 AM Subject: RE: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) >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