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- From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
- Subject: the Motif black hole.
- Message-ID: <9209011816.AA19239@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- References: <FELIX.92Sep1103526@idefix.laas.fr>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:16:18 GMT
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- No matter how useful a program may be, it contributes nothing to the
- GNU project if it requires Motif in order to run. Unless/until
- someone writes a free Motif implementation, such a program simply
- can't run on a GNU system.
-
- So, if you write software to enhance GNU, please don't use Motif.
- Use a free toolkit instead, such as the Athena widgets or InterViews.
-
- If you have written a program that requires Motif, please don't ask
- other people to help work on it. If other people do help, they too
- will fall into the Motif black hole, where their efforts add nothing
- to the GNU system. Please don't lead other people down this path.
-
- I have some ideas for how to support pictures within Info files (and,
- more generally, in any files for Emacs to display). I can write them
- down if someone is seriously interested in working on such a project
- for Emacs.
-
-