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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!?
Summary: clarification of Motif binaries
Message-ID: <2630@ics.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 12:08:22 GMT
References: <1445@riscy.dec.com> <138@fiver.UUCP>
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA
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One last comment before I join the moratorium on Motif talk: 

In article <138@fiver.UUCP>, palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
> From article <1445@riscy.dec.com>, by graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham):
> > Making something 'free' does not necessarily make it more popular.
>                    ^^^^^^
>                    What is free?                    
Making something generally available makes it more popular and helps
it to win the GUI wars, technical merits aside.

> > 
> > BTW:  The Motif binaries is only $40.
>                                     ^^^
This is the amount which the hardware vendor has to kick back to OSF
for each binary sold (up to 5000 copies; price goes down thereafter).
It is NOT the price which the vendor charges for the Motif binaries;
that could range from $0 to several hundred dollars.
-- 
David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu
"More than ninety years ago, H.G. Wells foretold time travel, yet to this day
the time machine stands as an example of a vision unfulfilled." -- lead 
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