Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Motif Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 20:13:41 GMT References: <4bIx7l618X_CQqiF0a@prefect.watson.ibm.com> <332@srchtec.UUCP> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 19 In-reply-to: mra@srchtec.UUCP's message of 29 Nov 90 01:56:00 GMT In article <332@srchtec.UUCP> mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond) writes: In addition, Open Look is free, which will cause it to spread faster than the non-free Motif. Uh, this is a bit exaggerated. "Open Look" per se is only a look-and-feel, which is freely available, ie buy the book and start writing code that looks and feels like it. The Xview API (SunView-like) is free, but not very portable. *Commercial* ports to non-Sun environments are in progress. The recent Sun announcement about the "almost free" ($1000) OpenWindows source, including an Xt-based API, has been flamed to death in comp.windows.x, it isn't any more free than Motif. On the other hand, I do like Motif's and OL's 3d look-and-feel. After using Motif or OL applications, Andrew does seem a bit ugly... -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland