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From: thp@westhawk.UUCP ("Timothy H Panton.")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif pricing.
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Date: 18 Aug 89 11:04:27 GMT
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> 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.

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