Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!cornell!murthy From: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Rms says: Motif vs open look, a trend? Message-ID: <51834@cornell.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 91 21:52:17 GMT References: <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> <1991Feb5.011604.3849@NCoast.ORG> <8536@mitech.com> <1991Feb9.000821.5554@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 19 lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: >gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >>But the X-Windows system style copyright isn't ideal for everyone -- >>what about the poor sod who buys a Wizz-Bang X Box that includes X and >>no source? He finds a bug, someone on the net provides a source-code >>fix, and then he has to wait 6 months for the vendor to ship him a >>fixed binary. >And then he has to call up MIT and buy a tape, or he has to FTP the >sources, or he has to uucp them. There are numerous ways to get X >source in small periods of time. Most of those who don't know the >first time they try, figure it out by the next time. But if he runs some slightly different hardware from that supported by MIT, he's S.O.L., eh? --chet--