On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:04:15PM +0000, Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alexander Mai wrote:
>
> > The OM FAQ indicates that perhaps/sometime in the future they might
> > have another license but that's similar to the situation in the past:
> > there have been rumours of OM for about a year (or more?) but you'll
> > never know whether it will really happen.
> >
> > Also one doesn't have to be a "GNU"/"OpenSource" fanatic person to
> > understand that a license like the OM one should not be supported at
> > all. It's just an attempt to destroy real "open source' movement,
> > something one could have expected from another company, this with the
> > "M" in the beginning ... ;-)
>
> I promissed myself never engage in a license flamewar again, so please
> don't take my comments as a flame.
>
> You seem to be a little bit angry because after all that effort developing
> LessTif, a simple movement from TOG may render all your job irrelevant.
> This is not the case, in my opinion. If I didn't have LessTif for all
> these years, probably I had switced to Gtk, Qt or even ncurses. LessTif
> saved me :-). I believe also that the success of LessTif is in part
> responsible for TOG's decision. This IS a victory, boys, a partial one,
> but still a victory!
Not at all.
My contributions to LessTif is so close to zero that I can't get angry
here on.
I'm angry cause I mostly use closed-source operating systems,
some w/o M*tif, some with Motif 1.1, some with 1.2.4, etc.
and do not benefit from this step of TOG (except that I'm also forced
to use linux and could benefit there)
In my opinion here all people which are happy with some 'opensource os'
ignore the fact that there's life beyond linux (I omit other systems
here by intention!). The same narrow-minded attitude like the
M$ people (users, developers, etc.). Why does everyone assume his
operating system is the only one??
>I can't see attempt from "M" (?) to destroy lesstif
I wrote a company starting with "M" might have done a similar step.
This license is really an attack of OpenSource. They did never
earn much money on those platforms, so that's the only reason to do so.
(if TOG would at least sell add-ons, then one could just assume they
are trying to earn money, which is an acceptable reason IMHO).
--
Alexander Mai
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