Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!bbn!news From: news@bbn.COM (News system owner ID) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif is a proprietary standard Message-ID: <50378@bbn.COM> Date: 3 Jan 90 23:12:07 GMT References: <6844@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W Placeway) Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 16 In article <6844@lindy.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes: < Does Scheifler's posting a few days ago that Motif source will not < be shipping with the R4 mean that it is not ready yet or that its < distribution is proprietary to OSF members? I believe that this was said earlier in the group. If it is true (that Motif is not generally available for free), then this is a GOOD reason to go with something that is. "Just say no." How about a UI that is covered (in look and feel) by the Gnu Public License (more or less -- applications may be sold, but the look and feel of such applications cannot ever be made propriatery)? (flames on this should NOT be posted to comp.windows.x) -- Paul Placeway