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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] need motif
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.233644.22493@rwwa.COM>
- Keywords: motif 386bsd
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:36:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.223849.18131@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>,
- kaleb@swat (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
- | I'm curious to know just what you intend to keep in this archive? Motif
- | is proprietary, and if you talk to the OSF people at the various X get-
- | togethers like Xhibition, X Technical Conference, etc. they'll tell you
- | just how vigorously they go after people who put Motif (libraries, program
- | files, source, etc.) onto anonymous ftp sites.
-
- On the other hand, an OSF person told me that if someone took the AES
- and programmed a motif look/work alike from it, they would/could do nothing.
-
- (not that I completely believe this)
-
- And as much as I like Xaw3d, Motif as more going for it than just shadows...
- like more widgets, and more powerfull widgets, and traversal, and...
-
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