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From: mayer@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Some Very Basic Questions
Message-ID: <6971@hplabsz.hplabs.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 17:20:16 GMT
References: <29086@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991May24.203747.12363@smsc.sony.com> <1991Jun5.115601.20270@eng.umd.edu>
Reply-To: mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer)
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In article <1991Jun5.115601.20270@eng.umd.edu> stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) writes:
>Not unless the price of Motif has dropped substantally, XView source is about
>$1000 less expensiave (XView source costs $0, but you have to ftp it, or
>get a friend to make a tape, or pay Sun around $200 for a tape).  The runtime
>royalty cost on XView is about $40 less per product linked with it (i.e. no
>runtime royalty).

I thought the $40.00 was the OSF per-workstation-fee for distributing
the compiled Motif library, headers, window manager, and UIL. So with
every copy of a vendor's Unix containing motif, the vendor sends
$40.00 to OSF. Unless I've been totally mislead, you don't have to pay
OSF money to distribute an application based on Motif.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong (an unecessary statement on USENET...).
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