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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] need motif
- Keywords: motif 386bsd
- Message-ID: <a47r02q82fCU01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 06:17:44 GMT
- References: <BzDLnu.Czt@ns1.nodak.edu> <BzDLsK.JLv@ns1.nodak.edu> <1gtgu0INN1gk@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> <1992Dec18.223849.18131@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Dec18.233644.22493@rwwa.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec18.233644.22493@rwwa.COM>, witr@rwwa.COM (Robert
- Withrow) writes:
- > 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)
-
- But it is an interesting idea.
-
- > 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...
-
- Not to mention that it makes the porting of Motif based applications a whole
- lot easier ;-).
-
- --
- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
- | what is wrong with it.
-