Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 07:29:40 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Tom Brown <Tom@mercia.com> Cc: "'Tim Pushor'" <timp@orion.ab.ca>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Message-ID: <3648.897402580@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 14:41:59 BST." <9500FBE37C19D1118D2200A0C907E0A530E33B@MERCIA_2>
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> 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? Well, it hardly started out as free software and, as such, can be forgiven for having a few remaining commercial dependencies. Motif is hardly the only such commercial software-dependant feature in Mozilla either, the mail subsystem, java interpreter and SSL bits being the very first casualties of the transition process. Removing the Motif UI stuff as well would have been taking it too far - not only would it have deprived aspiring programmers like yourself of the opportunity to make the existing UI code work with free Motif-like solutions like lesstif, it would have also robbed the folks who later did a Qt port of Mozilla of a perfectly good working example to copy. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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