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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OpenWindows Source Facts
Keywords: rumors
Message-ID: <18022@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 22 Nov 90 16:45:07 GMT
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In article <1990Nov21.221054.24244@odin.corp.sgi.com> erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com
(Erik Fortune) writes:

>Can anybody explain how this "free" and "open" release is any different
>(legally, not technically) from the "expensive" and "proprietary" release
>of Motif?  

It is not any different. But we all know if you keep calling a cabbage
a FRUIT long enough, you may get people to believe it. And, once you have
enough of those cabbages, you call it a de-facto-standard, as Mr. Schmitt
[sp?] likes to point out. But he forgets that a cabbage is a cabbage, and
even a believer can only eat so many of them.

oz
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