Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ico!auto-trol!marbru From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif 1.1 shipping (please read this too) Message-ID: <807@auto-trol.UUCP> Date: 4 Sep 90 18:34:32 GMT References: <9009011809.AA08100@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver Lines: 33 In article aledm@estcarp.logitek.co.uk (Aled Morris) writes: >In article <9009011809.AA08100@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes: >>I challenge OSF to put their principles where their publicity is and >>release OSF/Motif under the GNU General Public License, either version 1 .... > >I agree. Release the code, and no one will even think of using >OpenLook ever again. Come on, OSF, this is an opportunity not to be >missed! > (Do you really WANT to SEE the Motif's CODE ??? -) (Do you really WANT to FIX the Motif's CODE ??? -) (Do you really WANT to USE the Motif's CODE ??? -) Now, I am not against making Motif as freely available as possible. But I am not quite sure that posting the source on expo is the best way to do it. Besides many logistics issues, there are also the technical ones. The complexity of this toolkit makes it a headache to really seazoned hackers. Most of the "bugreports" on Motif describe a bug, but very few contain a fix or a workaround. So, rather than making the source free, I'd prefere OSF to WAIVE the "developers license". This $40 per-seat fee you have to pay OSF if your software is shipped in any form that gives the user access to to Motif (say your software uses shareable library that happens to contain Motif). Or $40 paid for "mwm" (though, from the PC world price standpoint this is not a bad price either). -- =*= Opinions presented here are solely of my own and not those of Auto-trol =*= Martin Brunecky marbru@auto-trol.COM (303) 252-2499 {...}ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru Auto-trol Technology Corp. 12500 North Washington St., Denver, CO 80241-2404