Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 13:58:23 -0600 From: "Tim Pushor" <timp@orion.ab.ca> To: "Tom Brown" <Tom@mercia.com>, "John Birrell" <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: <freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Message-ID: <002001bd93e1$1e141840$ea28f99f@tpushor.shl.com>
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Well, this is rather off topic but I highly doubt Netscape's intention was to release the code so that Trainee programmers could get their feet wet ;-) I do agree with the fact that Free Software should try to not use Motif if at all possible. I am surprised by the fact that the Hungry programmers are not using the release of Mozilla as an opportunity to polish their Motif clone code. This would give them a significant amount of exposure, and maybe they wouldn't be hungry any more :) BTW GNU is a completely different thing... Tim -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brown <Tom@mercia.com> To: 'Tim Pushor' <timp@orion.ab.ca>; John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG <freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 8:14 AM Subject: RE: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) >Ok I admit I'm new to this GNU stuff so these questions are going to sound >realy trivial but: > >Why bother to realease this source into the public domain if you then have >to go out and buy the the software neccessary to build it? > >It was my impression that the whole point of the free release was to >encorage tranee programmers like myself to get into the product a zero cost >and later proliferate it in the workplace under a licence (Honesty >allowing). > >Confused ! > >Tom > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tim Pushor [SMTP:timp@orion.ab.ca] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:21 PM >> To: John Birrell >> Cc: Tom Brown; freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) >> >> John Birrell wrote: >> >> > Tom Brown wrote: >> > > Just as soon as I find out where I can get a copy of Motif that >> doesn't cost >> > > $1200 or get the correct lib's. >> > >> > US$149 from www.xig.com >> >> Hmmm I purchased this Motif 2.0 from XIG some time ago when FreeBSD >> release level >> was at 2.1.7. As soon as I upgraded to 2.2 (and the corresponding XFree86 >> release) it broke Motif. Things would still build but would very often >> dump core. >> XIG's solution was to use the XFree release from 2.1.7 and if I needed the >> newer >> video drivers from the newer releases to just use the newer releases >> server, and >> the old releases libs. I had Motif running for about 30 days before it did >> not >> get installed again on any of my machines.. >> >> They aren't even answering my email anymore about a newer version of >> Motif. >> >> Has anyone else had similar experiences? >> >> Tim > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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