On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I tried asking one developer of a free software package if he would
> please mention only LessTif and not Motif in his package. He said
> that he felt obliged to speak about "Motif" as the name of the API
> which the program expects to use.
Hum, it seems that it's fun time in the LessTif mailing list. Perhaps we
should call it "The API that is neither Xaw, nor, GTK, nor Qt, nor Fresco,
nor FLTK, nor ..." :-).
> So I proposed that we should coin another name for that. I think the
> natural name for it is "Tif".
>
> What do you think? Would you like to propose that name, or some other
> name, as a way to talk about "Programs compatible with LessTif or
> Motif?"
Ridiculous. In Portuguese, "Tifo" is the name of a mortal disease; "tif"
is used as extension of the name files in "Tag Image File Format" [free
implementation available, Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler; Copyright
(c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.]; "theft" is the act of stealing and
"thief" is the one that steals.
Come on man, give to OSF (Open Group) at least the credit they deserve for
inventing the Motif API and use the right name to the $#@*+&% thing! Don't
feel ashamed of copying it as you did it before when copied the UNIX
operating system in "GNU/Linux".
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