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Jonathan Magid  
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 More options Oct 25 1996, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps, comp.os.linux.misc, de.comp.os.linux.misc
From: j...@calzone.oit.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Date: 1996/10/25
Subject: Re: Old Projects: Programmers wanted (was Re: New Project: KDE...)
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In article <54qnr6$...@rainbow.rmii.com>,

Robert Payne <rpa...@rainbow.rmii.com> wrote:

>I'm not too big on the free Motif clone idea.  Motif already exists
>and you can buy it for a reasonable price.  Any clone will have
>incompatibilities and features (read bugs) different from Motif and
>that detracts from it's attractiveness.  I believe it is in the
>best interest of the Linux community to support vendors who make
>commercial products available in a Linux release.

Actually, I think that the existance of a free Motif will help
Linux commercial products and desktop unix in general. One of
the real problems with Motif has been its commercial nature (besides
being slow, hard to program, and weird and buggy). It has meant
that free software authors have been slow to write for it, as not
everyone has it or can get it. Which means that interfaces and look/feel
has varied greatly in free X software.

Also, since Motif is commercial and not everyone has it, vendors that
sell software for Linux that uses Motif, statically link it- hurting
the performance of the apps (how many copies of static motif lib do
you want on your system memory at a time) and the sales of their products.

A free Motif- binary compatible with OSF/Motif (through the miracle
of modern shared libs) would address these problems.

cheers,
jem.

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j...@cnidr.org\/Center for Networked Information and Discovery
Co-author of The Web Server Book, available July, '95 from Ventana Press
<URL:http://www.vmedia.com/cat/press/store/wsb>


 
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