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From: graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham)
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Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!?
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Date: 16 Aug 89 20:31:28 GMT
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>|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

Maybe they should make everything "FREE".......let their employees work for
free,  let them have their premises for free.....and even bring Karl Marx from
his grave to teach them how to do things for free!    And explain to the rest
of the "unopen" world that "open" means "free"!

It will be a great idea indeed!  ;-)
-- 
Christopher Graham          
Digital Equipment Corp            
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