Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!yale!hsdndev!husc6!genrad!genrad.com!jpn From: jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Rms says: Motif vs open look, a trend? Message-ID: <40732@genrad.UUCP> Date: 11 Feb 91 12:56:50 GMT References: <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> <1991Feb5.011604.3849@NCoast.ORG> <8536@mitech.com> <1991Feb9.000821.5554@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <51834@cornell.UUCP> Sender: news@genrad.UUCP Reply-To: jpn@maxwell.genrad.COM (John P. Nelson) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 23 >>>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, ... > >But if he runs some slightly different hardware from that supported by >MIT, he's S.O.L., eh? Actually, this is very unlikely. The X windows system is largely hardware independendent, except for the X server itself. It is unlikely that anyone on the net will provide a source-code fix for an X server whose source has never been distributed. In the meantime, if there are fixes to the numerous libraries and applications which come with X, the MIT X11 sources should be sufficient. john nelson uucp: {decvax,mit-eddie}!genrad!jpn domain: jpn@genrad.com