Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!westhawk.UUCP!thp From: thp@westhawk.UUCP ("Timothy H Panton.") Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif pricing. Message-ID: <8908181104.AA05634@westhawk.uucp> Date: 18 Aug 89 11:04:27 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 > David B. Lewis david@ics.com writes: > Really, $1000 is cheap as far as workstation software goes I agree, we paid the $1k to AT&T for Openlook (didn't they set their price first?) just to see what it was like. Name another source product you can licence from any major vendor for under $10k. > and you get > source that's interesting to browse through, which is more than one can > say for AT&T's Xt-based OPENLOOK distribution Actually some of the OPENLOOK stuff is quite interesting, like the fast rounded buttons, and splitting the window manager into geometry manager and application manager. As it is only supported on an obscure ATT box, building it on anything else is definitely "interesting" ;-{ Tim. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Tim Panton, Westhawk Ltd. "We all have our faults, mine's being wicked." | |Paper: Westhawk Ltd. 26 Rydal Grove, Helsby, Cheshire, WA6 OET. UK. | |Phone: +44 92822574 uucp : ..!mcvax!ukc!cam-cl!westhawk!thp | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+