Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!? Message-ID: <12422@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 18:20:31 GMT References: <1776@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <2369@ics.COM><398@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 21 dbrooks@osf.osf.org (David Brooks) writes: |Everything else remains the same: a source license, which includes all |documentation, is available for $1000, and the Preliminary Functional |Descriptions are available for a handling fee of $30. There is no |plan to make Motif available any other way. $1000?????????????????????????????????????????? And they call themselves the "Open Software Foundation"? They should rename it to the "Expensive Software Foundation". Looks like their PR is a lot better than the reality. If this is typical pricing, it looks like they're going to be as expensive as AT&T, which will make them about as "open" as AT&T. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** Copyright 1989 by Sean Casey. Only non-profit redistribution permitted. *** ``Why can't anything be as simple as following the instructions???'' -me