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- From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
- Subject: dvx + motif - mark an
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.3880.3910@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:57:41 EST
- Lines: 51
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- >bringing this sort of feature to other window managers. Meanwhile, the
- >best workaround is to use DWM.
-
- UG>While I appreciate the reasons why this is so, perhaps you will
- UG>appreciate that it is of little comfort to me to be told this *after* I
- UG>paid 99 pounds + 17.5% VAT for Quarterdeck's port of Motif. In my
- UG>naivete, I assumed that Quarterdeck would have added the same sort of
- UG>support for Mark and Transfer as they did to DWM. It appears that I was
- UG>wrong. I wish I had known about this before I placed my order.
-
- UG>I find it somewhat astonishing to receive mailshots for Quarterdeck's
- UG>port of Motif which, in effect, say "buy this" and then, when I do and I
- UG>find a problem with it, to be told by someone who works for Quarterdeck
- UG>that "the best workaround is to use DWM". You are doing your own
- UG>company's software offerings a great disservice by making suggestions
- UG>like this.
-
- UG>If I were to take up your suggestion that I use DWM instead of Motif,
- UG>would Quarterdeck give me a refund for my newly redundant copy of Motif?
-
- I sympathize with your disappointment; everyone in technical support who
- runs mwm misses Mark and Transfer as well. However, we can't modify
- mwm; we have licenced it and recompiled it and that's all we can do
- within the confines of the licence agreement. (If we modified it, it
- wouldn't be mwm any more.) While the lack of Mark and Transfer might
- seem a deficit to you, it's a feature to everyone who wants to see Motif
- and nothing but Motif on their machines. Motif is offered for those who
- want an OSF/Motif look and feel on their desktop, and that look and feel
- does not provide a Mark and Transfer. Perhaps it may someday.
-
- Meanwhile, we didn't have to add support for Mark and Transfer to dwm;
- dwm was conceived from the ground up, by Quarterdeck, as a window
- manager that would include this feature. So in fact, I am paying a
- compliment to our company's software offerings; the software that we
- designed has, apparently, more of what you want.
-
- Here in Canada, our software comes with a warranty; I would assume that
- things are similar in the U.K. Please contact our offices there, or at
- QIL in Dun Laoghaire, if you have questions about refunds, and I'm sure
- they'll help you out.
-
- Regards,
-
- Michael Bolton
- Tech Support
- Quarterdeck Canada (416) 360-5758 quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com
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