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- From: dls@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Louis Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
- Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
- Message-ID: <18448@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:27:42 GMT
- References: <1jkvc1INNoke@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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- In <1jkvc1INNoke@shelley.u.washington.edu> sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
- > The article went on to say that 78% of installations
- > polled had Motif running on at least one machine.
- > The article then admitted that only 5000 motif
- > licenses were sold to date on Sparc Stations
- > which they said were less than 1% of Sparc Stations.
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- 5000 Motif licenses from who though? OSF?
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- You can bet that a *lot* of people have 3rd party binary-only
- Motif distributions on Suns. Much more than 5000.
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- Not everyone gets Motif from OSF.
-
- Daniel
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