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

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From: Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 20:23

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>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 1993 15:49:02 GMT, hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
>>> (HALLAM-BAKER Phillip) said:

HALLAM-BAKER> Releasing PD software has a hell of a lot more to it than
HALLAM-BAKER> simply writing it.

Exactly! ...

HALLAM-BAKER> I think that the least users could do is to try to make
HALLAM-BAKER> their comments constructive rather than destructive.

... and one such comment is: dear free sw developers, please don't use
OSF Motif for any new programs you write:

1) There are complicated licensing issues that can cause problems to you
   or to us, and that reduce the potential for usefulness and widespread
   adoption of any free sw that depends on OSF/Motif.

2) There are free sw alternatives to OSF/Motif; among them Tcl/Tk, the
   favourite, and then Interviews and, even if disliked by many, XView.

It's just not worth the trouble writing free sw that uses OSF/Motif.

That's simple _and_ constructive.

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From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Subject: Re: Tough! Quit griping! Was: Re: Don't use Motif for free sw: it now requires runtime royalties!
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