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From: chris@touch.touch.com (Chris Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: MOTIF on SUN - I give up
Message-ID: <205@touch.touch.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 18:45:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: touch.205
Organization: Touch Communications Inc, Campbell, CA
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Is this reality - the only way to get the libraries and assorted files
needed to link a MOTIF application on a Sun is to purchase those libraries
in source from OSF ($1000) and "port" them or to purchase a compiled verion
from a 3rd party (which all seem to cost > $500)?

I have no need for MOTIF sources but find it hard to believe that compiled
versions of a $1000 piece of source cost $500 or more when the royalty paid
back to OSF is less than 10% of that and there is little if any value add
in these products.....

Plenty of folks seem to have MOTIF on a SUN - what am I missing?  (If you're
going to tell be brain cells please do it by mail ...)

  - Chris