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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif 1.1 shipping (please read this too)
Message-ID: <1210042@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 90 17:59:24 GMT
References: <1990Aug29.155636@osf.org>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> Sun, on the other hand, trying to establish OL as a standard, has no
> consortium to hold it up, and must therefore resort to giving it away,
> FREE.

So why did we never see FREE implementations of NeWS?

Is there a free Xt-based implementation of OL? It seems to me that this
would be a bigger draw than XView. XView is very nice for porting SunView
applications, but I don't find it attractive for new development. Also
while XView is free, it is less than easily portable to non-BSD systems.
People with such systems will end up having to pay for XView (and they
presumably will not get source).

I do not mean to rag on Sun for these inadequacies. I'm just pointing
out that comparing XView to Motif is apples to oranges.

			-- Chan