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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif vs OpenLook (again, oh no!)
Message-ID: <1210035@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:46:53 GMT
References: <9006300544.AA00451@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> (This posting is anti-Motif, but can be equally well applied to any 
> proprietary $-required software whose price is bundled into the 
> machine's price.)

Well, then what do you plan to do when you leave your educational
institution? Unix is not free, ya know.

>> I would not be surprised to see many major customers requiring vendor
>> supplied Motif libraries in the near future.
>
> If I ever buy a workstation...I will require that it *not* come with
> Motif.  I have no interest in paying extra for something I don't want
> and won't be using.

Do you own an automobile? Do you smoke? Did you make them rip the cigarette
lighter out before you bought it?

Anyway, you're not the type of customer being discussed. Companies who
buy hundreds of workstations at a pop want system software supported by the
company they bought them from (ie. they're one-stop shoppers).

Take a vacation from your ivory tower and get a look at the world (aka the 
military-industrial complex from which the money flows that makes this
all possible).

			-- Chan