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From: rms@MOLE.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: Alternatives to Motif
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Date: 6 Mar 91 02:04:42 GMT
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The Free Software Foundation urges X Windows users not to use Motif,
for two reasons.

Motif competes directly with other toolkits that are free software.
In this way, it undermines part of the X Windows project.  And
programs that use Motif won't be able to run on a GNU system, since
Motif is not free and won't be available on GNU systems.

Available free toolkits include the Athena widgets and Interviews (which
uses C++ as its abstract object paradigm).  XView, an implementation of
Open Look, is also supposed to be free, though there is a mixup in the
copying conditions on the version now available.