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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:46:54 PDT
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- From: "W. Todd Wipke" <wipke@SECS.UCSC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Motif as a standard?
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- >Subj: Re: Motif as a standard?
- >
- >From: "Selden E. Ball, Jr." <SEB@lns61.tn.cornell.edu>
- >To: wipke@SECS.UCSC.EDU
- >
- >Todd,
- >
- >There should be no need for a Motif license in the CSLG.
- >All "new" VAXstations come with a Motif license in the form of a NAS
- >(Network Applications Support) license. This has been the case for
- >at least a year.
- >
- >The problem is that a Motif license was not included with those
- >VAXstations which were purchased before Motif was available. Free Motif
- >licenses were available for a while, and most sites managed to get them.
- >
- >Unfortunately, there were some sites which didn't learn about the
- >free licenses in time. Naturally, those are the sites which are very
- >vocal about wanting to get free Motif licenses now.
- >
- >You aren't seeing many postings from those of us who did get the licenses.
- >
- >I hope this clarifies things somewhat.
- >
- >Selden Ball
- >seb@lns61.tn.cornell.edu
- But I have a compute server (vms) that has the purpose of letting decstations
- login and run applications written in Motif to pop windows on the decstations.
- You must have a Motif license on the graphics client, i.e., the cpu on which
- the application code executes. The vax 4000/500 came with decnet, vaxcluster,
- and vax-vms licenses only--no Motif license, thus no workstation can run a
- graphics job on the vax 4000/500 until we get a Motif license. Sigh.
- wipke@secs.ucsc.edu
-