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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with MOTIF on Suns
Message-ID: <5552@inco.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 14:44:30 GMT
References: <5534@inco.UUCP>
Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Co. McLean VA
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In article <5534@inco.UUCP> I wrote:
>
>Has anyone out there gotten Motif to run on a Sun machine of any
>flavor? I've tried to get snapshot 4 running on a 386i under OS4.0.1
>and a Sun-2/170 under OS3.4, and mwm dies horribly every time. The
>problem (at least on the Sun-2, dbx seems to be broken on the 386i)
>appears to be in lib/Xm/XmString.c, which contains some very
>unportable code. This is typical:

OK, the only excuse I can offer is that insanity runs in my family.
Snapshot 4 is way, way out of date (I wasn't aware of this), and
the current release of Motif appears to run on Suns with no problems.

On to other news.

I just received a phone call from a very nice gentleman at OSF,
explaining that the code chunk I posted as an example of the
sort of thing that was killing mwm is Copyrighted, and that,
while OSF is not suing me, I will be getting a letter from
their lawyers. He was most apologetic about this, but OSF is
apparently extremely concerned about the possibility of Motif
accidentally slipping into the public domain.

The moral of the story, boys and girls, is that even a tiny chunk
of copyrighted software is copyrighted. I hate to think what would have 
happened if I'd posted the patch to fix the "problem".

Anyway, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Let's be careful out there.

-- 
Dave Mack