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- From: jem@vipunen.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Subject: Re: Motif in SLS
- In-Reply-To: pmacdona@sanjuan's message of Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:10:14 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Aug21.011014.3070@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 22:04:06
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- In article <1992Aug21.011014.3070@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
-
- >Contrary to what someone said, Motif is NOT included in the SLS
- >distribution. Instead it includes the GWM (generic window manager)
- >which has a Motif emulation mode. So no patent infringement is
- >involved.
-
- What about copyright? Or look and feel? (:-)
-
- My reaction to the mwm emulator (after the initial aah and ooh) was:
- Why did somebody bother to make an *exact* copy of the Motif window
- manager? I mean, it looks pretty, but couldn't anybody have come up
- with something more original? I can understand copying the API and
- functionality of an operating system (for compatibility). But there
- are no compatibility issues with window managers, at least none
- concerning their appearance.
-
- I guess the Motif emulator was easy to do, since all the design work
- had already been done by the OSF...
-
- (It might sound like I'm very worried about the legal status of the
- emulator. Well, I'm not. (What, me worry?) I'm just astonished that
- somebody would go through so much trouble to create something that
- looks like mwm, but still isn't the real thing.)
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
-