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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
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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.
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