Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!bloom-beacon!ICASE.EDU!tom From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!? Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 89 12:21:18 GMT References: <8908171153.AA02417@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 > *Excerpts from xpert: 17-Aug-89 Re: What is that MOTIF than..* > *steve@umiacs.umd.edu (847)* > (Donning asbestos suit...) Good idea. Advocating things for free seems like a good way to draw the heat :-). But seriously, I think that if workstation software prices were cut from about $1000 (that seems to be a popular figure these days) to about $100 or less, the number of copies sold would more than make up the difference in price. Given the quantity and improving quality of free software, it's very hard to justify spending $1000 on a package if there's any other way at all of getting the job done. Tom Crockett My opinions are strictly my own, etc., etc. ICASE Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering M.S. 132C e-mail: tom@icase.edu NASA Langley Research Center phone: (804) 864-2182 Hampton, VA 23665-5225