Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!UMIACS.UMD.EDU!steve
From: steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!?
Message-ID: <8908171153.AA02417@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU>
Date: 17 Aug 89 11:53:30 GMT
References: <1444@riscy.dec.com>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 20


   Actually (as someone who is definitely more of an OSF fan than a Unix
International fan), I worry that, simply because the OPEN LOOK-compliant
X11 toolkit (and maybe a window manager, I don't know for sure) *is*
distributed for free, OPEN LOOK will win over Motif.

   I think that, when all is said and done, X11 was sure helped a lot in
the popularity battle over NeWS because X11 was free, and NeWS wasn't.
I think Sun learned its lesson on that, and that this is one of the reasons
that the XView toolkit will be free.  I'm surprised to see that OSF took a
step backward in this regard.

   Save the world from OPEN LOOK: make Motif free!

   (Donning asbestos suit...)

	-Steve

Spoken: Steve Miller    Domain: steve@mimsy.umd.edu    UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve
Phone: +1-301-454-1808  USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742