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From: dbrooks@osf.osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Where is MOTIF?
Summary: OSF/Motif is proprietary software
Keywords: OSF Motif license Xt
Message-ID: <2264@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Date: 27 Dec 89 14:55:55 GMT
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Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
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I think it's time to say the following again.

yakker@stravinsky.UUCP (matt robinson) and several others write:
>Where do we find MOTIF?...
>...ftp...
>...the wrong thing...

OSF/Motif is proprietary software.  Open Software Foundation licenses
the source and source-related support.  Other vendors will make
available binaries and related support.  If it *is* available by
anonymous ftp, we would very much like to hear about it ourselves :-)

So if you want OSF/Motif (this includes mwm), you can do one of three
things:

1) Obtain a source license from us.  Call +1(617)621-8835, or write
Motif Desk, Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge,
MA 02142, USA.  Please, pretty please, don't email me?

2) Ask some appropriate hardware vendors or ISV for developer's kits,
materials and support.

3) Bug your Department/Computing Services/Favorite Uncle to do (1) or (2).

The notoriously broken tar.Z on expo and elsehere wasn't put there by
OSF.  It seems to contain the OSF/Motif-related enhancements made to
the R3 Intrinsics, and rolled into the R4 Intrinsics.
-- 
David Brooks			dbrooks@osf.org
Open Software Foundation	uunet!osf.org!dbrooks