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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
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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
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