Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Xview vs. Motif speculation Message-ID: <1990Apr13.211837.9106@alphalpha.com> Date: 13 Apr 90 21:18:37 GMT References: <90Apr8.221709edt.3362@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <775@med.Stanford.EDU> <1990Mar28.023719.13505@athena.mit.edu> <1600@riscy.dec.com> <1601@riscy.dec.com> Organization: asi Lines: 23 In article <1601@riscy.dec.com> graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) writes: >Any suggestions how the software companies should pay for >the time and money invested/spent in building and *supporting* >the software that you suggest be available via ftp from every coner of >the universe? The last time I checked, even University/academic >programmers did not work for free..... Software companies, no. OSF, yes. OSF is currently financed for 3/4 years by the sponsors and the membership. I would propose that the results of that sponsership are valuable that they will be willing to continue funding it in the future, and that it will therefore have no need to charge for its products. So why pay money as an OSF sponsor/member? To help mold the direction of, and receive early access too, what OSF does. Considering that the alternative is investing money in OSF, and then buying its products, and then tossing them out because something more widely available won, I think it's a small price to pay. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 | | nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | 300/1200/2400 baud | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+