Re: Proposal: Motif Widget set
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:53:46PM -0500, gk4@us.ibm.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > >As long as the LSB standard only covers the common subset of Motif
> > >and Lesstif (LGPLed) I would see no problem of including it right
now --
> > >as an addon
> >
> > Motif 2.1 is the state of the art and the UNIX standard. I would
object
> > to specifying a subset of Motif 1.2.X.
>
> Lesstif is the Linux standard. At least all Motif programs I have commonly
> seen for Linux worked with lesstif.
Lesstif was written because Motif wasn't free (for some value of ...).
This sounds more like cutting off your nose to spite your face than
a sound technical decision. One of Stallman's strategic objectives
behind free software (and I cite him because he's been the driving
force behind the free software movement for nearly 2 decades) is
providing "better" versions of the same programs and libraries than
the proprietary vendors. Motif is a better version of Motif than is
Lesstif. It is free enough to distribute with Linux (and if some
distribution isn't "free", =they= need to fix their distribution) and
that's what matters.
ISV's that are coding to the current UNIX standards aren't going
to use a backlevel version of Motif. If we are going to attract
=them=, the most recent version of Motif needs to be available.
-- Julie.
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