🚀 go-pugleaf

On 27 Jan 1998, James Youngman wrote:

>   Rachel> Motif might be horrible (personally I like it, and can't see
>   Rachel> what the fuss is about) but it's a *standard* library that
>   Rachel> can be found on nearly all commercial UNIX OS's - if you
>   Rachel> don't have it, it's not hard to come by.  So what if you
> 
> But it *is* expensive.
> 
>   Rachel> have to spend a few dollars for it.  It came free with
>   Rachel> Solaris, so I'm happy.  If I had to use linux as a desktop
>   Rachel> console there's no way I would not have Motif on there, even
>   Rachel> if I have to fork out AUD100...
> 
> I use Linux for things thich are not very X; for example network
> servers.  I don't think it is appropriate to purchase Motif for
> these.  However, I might occasionally still run X.  Still having
> decent-looking GUI programs is nice.

Isn't Lesstif a free, drop in replacement for Motif, thereby negating
the cost issue?  [I don't follow this stuff that closely, so I could
be talking bollocks!]

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