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Article #695Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
From: Daniel Louis Smith
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:27
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:27
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In <1jkvc1INNoke@shelley.u.washington.edu> sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
> The article went on to say that 78% of installations
> polled had Motif running on at least one machine.
> The article then admitted that only 5000 motif
> licenses were sold to date on Sparc Stations
> which they said were less than 1% of Sparc Stations.
5000 Motif licenses from who though? OSF?
You can bet that a *lot* of people have 3rd party binary-only
Motif distributions on Suns. Much more than 5000.
Not everyone gets Motif from OSF.
Daniel
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!autodesk!dls From: dls@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Louis Smith) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group Message-ID: <18448@autodesk.COM> Date: 21 Jan 93 22:27:42 GMT References: <1jkvc1INNoke@shelley.u.washington.edu> Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA Lines: 19