From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 21 20:35:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA20767 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:35:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA20761 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:35:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08353; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:35:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:35:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Edward Ing cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/Open Motif and XFree86 In-Reply-To: <3294DD81.6108@utoronto.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Edward Ing wrote: > Is it X/Open Motif standards compliant? How do you mean? There is only one source for Motif source code and the stuff X-Inside sells is from that one source, just like the Motif and CDE everyone else on the planet uses. If there are violations of a standard, they are the same violations every other vendor has.... > Second, its not Free or nearly free. Surprise! What did you expect? Motif has never been free. There is an effort underway to implement a freely distributable version of the Motif API (lesstif), but I gather it has a way to go before it could serve as a plug-in replacement for the "real" Motif. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================