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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: Motif for Linux ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.151229.26812@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1993Jan18.214623.14331@athena.mit.edu> <tNOXrAsCBh107h@mala.proteus.qc.ca> <1jnnj9INNm1n@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:12:29 GMT
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- nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
- >Having the Motif widget set would definitely be a big plus,
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- While I too think that the diverse user interfaces of X programs is a
- bad thing, I don't think Motif has much of a future for Linux until it
- becomes free distributable in source form. One of the reasons behind
- the success of Linux, GNU software, and X (to name a few examples) is
- that the source is readily and freely available and distributable.
- Having to rely on other people to get binaries that work with new
- compilers and libraries is a bad idea.
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
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