From owner-freebsd-mozilla Tue Jun 9 08:04:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12809 for freebsd-mozilla-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12773 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:04:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA03051; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:03:51 -0500 (CDT) To: Tom Brown Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) References: <9500FBE37C19D1118D2200A0C907E0A530E33B@MERCIA_2> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 09 Jun 1998 10:03:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Tom Brown's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:41:59 +0100" Message-ID: <87n2bmd3c8.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Brown writes: > 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 ! Historically NS was built with motif: they can't change that. There are efforts underway to get lesstif good enough to work with it well; make a port that uses gtk instead of motif; make a port that uses qt instead of motif. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message