Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Rms says: Motif vs open look, a trend? Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 91 21:28:06 GMT References: <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> <1991Feb5.011604.3849@NCoast.ORG> <8536@mitech.com> <1991Feb9.000821.5554@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 19 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. Finally, if MIT had used the GNU Public Virus for X, we'd all be speaking PostScript to our windows. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]