On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:06:37AM +0200, Danny Backx wrote:
> Let's start some discussion.
[ I couldn't resist to state my opinion another time;
'experts' may skip this message :-]
> We have to face it : things have changed, and I am not sure if I care
> whether this is a victory for us or not.
Since OM is not 'freely' usable it is no victory.
BTW, a victory would have been this move from the OG as soon
as the initial LessTif version was launched ...
> Some people have said that OpenMotif is not open enough. For the users
> of some operating systems, that's clearly true. For the followers of
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I rarely buy new systems, but what I've seen several operating systems
ship major parts of the software as options only.
Anyway we have to say 'most' instead of 'some' here!
> the true GNU philosophy as well. Maintaining and advancing LessTif
> clearly makes sense for both those groups of people.
> Another idea is to extend Motif, and help to create the drive to
> advance the technology. Dusan writes this (see below), the texts on
> MotifZone (www.motifzone.net) indicate that as well.
Until someone clever tells you how to do you can't easily work
on both projects w/o license violation?!
Reading statements like yours I got the opinion that we just
wait and see who is
- exclusively using 'opensource operating systems and also don't
care about the OpenSource issue (not necessarily in the
OpenSource.org definition but in almost any one)
or
- looking for a 'free' Motif implementation.
If that number is not sufficient to keep LessTif alive (or enhance it)
it will die.
WRT the first group: obviously you can't divide people in just
opensource-fanatics and others. I don't have any problems using
commercial software (a lack of money perhaps ;-) but I do
strongly support free software.
--
Alexander Mai
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