Date: 09 Jun 1998 10:03:51 -0500 From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org To: Tom Brown <Tom@mercia.com> Cc: freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Message-ID: <87n2bmd3c8.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Tom Brown's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:41:59 %2B0100" References: <9500FBE37C19D1118D2200A0C907E0A530E33B@MERCIA_2>
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Tom Brown <Tom@mercia.com> writes: > 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 ! Historically NS was built with motif: they can't change that. There are efforts underway to get lesstif good enough to work with it well; make a port that uses gtk instead of motif; make a port that uses qt instead of motif. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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