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From: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.COM (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xview vs. Motif speculation
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Date: 8 Apr 90 22:16:56 GMT
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Christopher Graham <graham@fuel.enet.dec.com> writes

> I don't know what you mean by 'free'...but very soon,
> some companies will make Motif the default
> environment when you purchase their computers. 

> Hopefully, this will remove any illusions that other
> kits are 'free' and Motif is not...

By this reasoning NeWS would have been free if "some companies" had
been willing to license it and deliver it with their systems.

As I recall, certain companies backing X were once quite willing to
leverage the attraction to free source.  If they are unhappy that the
world has come to expect it, they have no one to blame but themselves.

For those of you demanding free source and irate that OSF is charging
for it, the original press release announcing OSF said that it would
license its software, i.e., that it would be a software vendor.  But
most of you seem to have believed the hype that it would be some sort
of benign entity.  Folks, you have been had, and you too have no one
to blame but yourselves.

--
Dick St.Peters, GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
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