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In article <9010181810.AA01570@acme.draper.com> mal%acme.draper.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Mark Lamourine) writes:
>If my understanding is correct, they are supposedly devoted to
>selecting those software items that seem to be most accepted in the
>industry, and incorporating those items into their portfolio. However,
Technical superiority is also suppost to be a factor, and they may do
integration and development work themselves as well.

>Now, at first this may seem obvious. Sun is not a member of OSF. However,
Having gone through the RFT process at OSF as a reviewer of technologies
I can assure you that member vs. non-member is not a factor in evaluating
technolgy at OSF.

>If OSF is truly dedicated to fostering standardization, Sun should at least
and excellence.
>have been approached about it. It is my understanding that they were not.
They were, they submitted their technology.

>Question of information: is the NFS protocol public domain? I know that
>it is based on TCP/IP which *is* (It was developed for DoD I think).
You have to license the name if you want to use it, but you can do your
own implementation if you want - Apollo did.

>compare the two. If I'm not too firmly entrenched by then. If OSF wants
>Motif to have a chance, I would suggest making ports to non-member machines
>available *soon*, and free.
OSF doesn't do binaries.  The source is available for $1000.  That's
not free, but it's cheaper than any other commercial software source I've
ever heard of.  It *is* available now on non-member machines from a wide
variety of sources.

Personally I'd love to see a non-Intrinsic's based (read "fast") Motif
toolkit in the PD.  How about C++ based, with an Xm-compatible C API
library that wraps on it for people who need it?
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.