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From: stripes@ENG.UMD.EDU ("Stripes ", or Josh, if you must)
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Subject: Re: Motif Shared Library Licensing
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Date: 11 Feb 91 13:45:32 GMT
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Kee Hinckley said:
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>This has got to change.  OSF has got to get out of this vendor-oriented
>view of the world (ISVs don't provide shared libraries, vendors do).
>We're shipping with my own version of Motif now because neither 1.1 or
>1.1.1 fix all of the bugs or provide the functionality we need.  I don't
>anticipate this changing anytime in the next year - and I know we're
>not the only company in this situation.  We can't afford to charge
>extra for every copy of the program, and we can't afford the administration
>and liability costs of trying to determine which sites we ship to have
>a license and which don't.

If you ship your own copy of Motif, who are you going to share it with?  Or
do you have more then one product that uses the same fixed fersion of Motif?
If not then a shared lib will be no win over a shared lib (in fact a marginal
loss, PIC code is a tiny bit slower then position dependent code).

However it still is a long term problem, when Motif becomes bug-free enough
to run out of the box, shared libs will be a really big win...
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