Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:13:29 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif goes open source Message-ID: <200005151514.LAA20258@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <4701.958389202@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 20:10:29 %2B0900." <391FDB25.D7FB808F@newsguy.com>
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At 01:13 PM 5/15/00 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Since X11 is an optional (3rd party even) component of FreeBSD, >the license on Motif is not really a big issue: it will always be >a port in FreeBSD, it will not be part of the base system. > >We have other ports with far weirder licenses. > >Only too bad it took them 10 years to realize what the key to a >success in the UNIX world is :-( That is, if your definition of "success" is wide-spread use rather than profits.... I think that Sun and Oracle are doing rather well. DB Emerging Technologies, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- http://www.etinc.com ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers Bandwidth Management Standalone Systems Bandwidth Management software for LINUX and FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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