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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:32:51 EDT
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- From: "Hunter Goatley" <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: Motif as a standard?
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- "W. Todd Wipke" <wipke@SECS.UCSC.EDU> writes:
- >
- >I am disappointed that DEC is not encouraging Universities to use
- >MOTIF as a standard. By not including it in the ESL, CSLG, and CONDIST,
-
- Motif v1.0 is on the CONDIST, unless they're planning to take it
- off....
-
- >DEC is undercutting this standard. Having lived through a number of so-
- >called standards for workstations, the mascinations regarding MOTIF, is
- >particularly irritating. I have been developing on MOTIF and now realize
- >that our programs will not necessarily run in a typical vms environment
- >because MOTIF is not going to be a standard default part of that environment.
- [...]
- >the use and availability of MOTIF, at least for Universities. DEC, include
- >it in the CSLG and the CONDIST, please.
- >
- DEC has to pay the OSF a royalty on each license (I think), so I can
- understand why it's not in the CSLG, though that would be nice. But
- as long as RTNV is included with VMS support, then it's not as big a
- problem as it otherwise would be.
-
- Hunter
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- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-