Re: Motif v lesstif - was Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 ...
> > > What do you mean? Making Lesstif and Motif binary compatible?
> > > You must have OSF source for that :)
I know that if someone want to sell Motif, he needs to buy the source
from OSF and compile it. And if he wants to use the name "Motif" to
sell their compilation, he needs to pay extra royalties.
Well, when someone buy a compiled Motif (for about US$ 70,00), he
receives a great amount of tools to develop applications with it,
plus the libraries binaries. But there are *many* guys, like me, who
won't use these tools. I, for example, would buy it only for the
shared libraries, because with them many applications (like
StarOffice) could work faster and with less memory.
So, I think: US$ 70,00 is really *much* money for only one or two
files. I don't want to program with Motif, nor use the Motif Window
Manager for X (I use Afterstep) so, why not someone sells only the
libraries? Or even best: why Linux users don't join to buy the
source, compile these libraries, and distribute them for free?
Maybe I'm crazy, but who knows? It's an idea... ;-)
[]'s Alexander Gieg
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
By: Alexander Gieg
E-mail: agieg@base.com.br
URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222/
IRC: AlexG
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
There will be a time in which *all* the computers
in the Earth will be using Linux! Amen!
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: