Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 12:14:58 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif not available? Message-ID: <19990501021459.15568.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904292034250.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> of Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:39:03 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904292034250.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > I spoke to several people at XIG about Motif for FreeBSD 3.x. They assured > > me they are working on a version and will be shipping at the beginning of > > this summer. It would be a good idea if people called them and asked when > > they will be shipping Motif for FreeBSD. Metro Link (www.metrolink.com) and > > Apps2go (www.apps2go.com) are now shipping Motif 2.1.10 for FreeBSD 3.x > > That's what they told me, when I asked them 5 months before > FreeBSD-current went elf. I explained in very plain language what was > happening, and why they should bring out a new version. They said they > were, so I began to ask them once a month "where is it, here's my money, > please take it". About 6 months later, they finally admitted they'd > done nothing on it, and they weren't going to. They'd lied to me the > whole time. That's completely typical for that company. I spent a full year trying to force money on them for one of their products for a different platform and got vague promises, serious promises, long silences, rude responses -- everything possible except the product. > Maybe they've changed their mind again. They now have 2 competitors, > and a bunch of old customers who were screwed. I don't think it's a > great idea to wait too long on XIG *finally* coming to market with an > ELF Motif. Even if they do, their other unattractive habit is arbitrarily abandoning customers who have invested money for a product that they lose interest in or running on a platform that they lose interest in. Definitely a company to avoid. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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