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Regarding FSF philosophy; rms@MOLE.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) adds:

> That's right.  How well Motif works if you can run it is not the
> issue.  The issues are whether a progam will be more available if it
> does not use Motif, and whether in the long run we will be better
> off supporting and encouraging development of free toolkits rather
> than proprietary ones.  Certainly those things will enhance the GNU
> system.

I (think I) understand and agree with you as far as Motif the OSF
toolkit is concerned.  However, your argument does not appear to apply
to Motif the publicly defined and freely implementable look and feel
(whose merits I have no desire to argue, for or against).

It reasonable for the FSF to oppose use of the Motif toolkit in its
free software, however it would not clearly be reasonable to oppose
the use of a freely available toolkit with the same look and feel such
as John Ousterhout's forthcoming Tk/Tcl.
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                                            dan

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