Re: Don't use Motif for free sw: it now requires runtime royalties!

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From: Kaleb Keithley
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 20:06

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glp@teal.csn.org (Glenn Pinkerton) writes:

>I wrote:
>>I sincerely doubt this had anything to do with Motif. The whole library
>>is ~500k on a Sun SPARC. Even if your link editor pulls in every last
>>module in libXm, libXt, and libX11, (statically linked) the libraries
>>only contribute ~1.5meg, unstripped. That 35 meg came from somewhere
>>else.
>>

>     Certainly the library is not all that large, but the library size has
>little to do with the actual amount of memory used at run time.  

Who said anything about runtime? The original post referred to a 35 meg
stripped executable *FILE*.

Think and read before you post. Sheesh.

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Subject: Re: Don't use Motif for free sw: it now requires runtime royalties!
Date: 30 Nov 93 20:06:26 GMT
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