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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re: Xview vs. Motif speculation; Re: Free Motif
Message-ID: <1210031@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 21:17:31 GMT
References: <775@med.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> I'm not for everything being freely available, but programmer's
> toolkits that support an interface that you're trying to make a
> standard so that people will buy your product over someone else's (ie
> Motif for OSF/1 vs Open Look for Sun/AT&T) are probably a good idea to
> write off (ie give away for free).

Hmmmm. Why does the phrase "trying to make a standard so that people will
buy your product over someone else's" strike me as rather absurd?

Let's see, how freely available was SunView source? What Unix windowing
system probably supports the largest number of applications?

			-- Chan