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From: anon@ZIP.EECS.UMICH.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Motif Shared Library Licensing
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Date: 12 Feb 91 18:52:56 GMT
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When is this stone-age luddite attitude of OSF going to
change?  If Motif were the last step of a thousand mile
journey to GUI nirvana, there may be some justification
in overcharging and overbearing.  As it stands now, it
is just another run-of-the-mill mediocre and cumbersome
system.  The more hassle OSF gives developers, the less
those developers are willing to settle for the merchandise
they are getting for their money.

Furthermore, if anyone is concerned about what bug-ridden
shared library version of Motif their applications will
be running against, they always have the option of statically
linking with their own bug-ridden version of Motif.

Get real, OSF.


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