Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!spider!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.CO.JP (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: want twm to leave icons alone Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 90 17:41:59 GMT References: <5386@ge-dab.GE.COM> <1465@hslrswi.UUCP> <5423@ge-dab.GE.COM> <1990Aug23.144057.3566@Solbourne.COM> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 25 In-reply-to: janssen@parc.xerox.com's message of 30 Aug 90 02:21:50 GMT In article janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes: =}[This "free code" virus seems to turn people's minds off.] You *pay* the =}supplier of your window manager to make such a fix, and they either do it =}or you sue them. Speaking of closed minds...Money and lawsuits...Sheesh... I *pay* the supplier of twm with the feedback I generate about their software. That's what distribution and maintenance is all about. =}Or you can do it yourself, if your supplies of money or patience are =}short. But don't forget time. There are a lot of us who like twm and want minor changes but don't have the time to hack around someone elses code or to grind out our own. Some of us are busy working on our projects to distribute in the public domain and don't have time to correct the dozens of pds stuff we use that is supposedly maintained by others... -- -- $@2#2OEE5!3t<02q