Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!ics!david From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Motif pricing (was Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!?) Summary: Motif a good deal Message-ID: <2520@ics.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 00:24:22 GMT References: <1776@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu< <2369@ics.COM> <12422@s.ms.uky.edu> Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 34 In article <12422@s.ms.uky.edu<, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: < 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 Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean Well, that's cheap, considering that some of us spent 25 times that to become OSF members :-) Really, $1000 is cheap as far as workstation software goes -- 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. It really is an excellent deal, and one that is open to everyone. I'm not one known for echoing OSF's official line, but I do believe that they win this round. BTW, for less, you can get a set of binaries from your hardware vendor or some IBV (independent binary vendor) for non-supported machines. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu UNIX - some assembly required.