From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 14:45:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA23037 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net [203.108.7.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA23032; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (8.8.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA22813; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:45:31 +1100 (EST) Received: from rlyon.mynet.au (slmel4p40.ozemail.com.au [203.15.163.128]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA20070; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:45:12 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:31:55 +1100 (EST) From: Richard Lyon X-Sender: rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au To: "Paul T. Root" cc: Edward Ing , XFree86@XFree86.org, questions@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/Open Motif and XFree86 In-Reply-To: <199611221459.IAA05311@horton.iaces.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Edward Ing said: > > Are there any plans by the Xfree organization to create and > > implementation according to the IEEE and X/Open standards? > > Or even and CDE implementation? I am a FreeBSD user, and I dream of > > something like this happening. > > > > What or the legal and licensing problems or obligations? > > Would it be possible to get X/Opens vendor certification > > for such implementations even if Xfree is not actually > > a vendor? > > You can buy Motif and CDE from Xinside for about $150. > Has any looked at LessTif? This is meant to be a Motif clone currently under development. see http://www.hungry.com Regards Richard ...