On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:43:16 -0600, Kenton R. Wilson wrote:
>If I may I would like to use this as a segue into an advocacy
>discussion. I meant to respond to the advocacy thread that
>came up about two weeks ago but was busy at the time...
>I applogize in advance for any improprieties.
>
>I would like to address two issues:
>
[...]
>Future of Motif
>---------------
>
>First I think we need to establish whether anyone here really believes
>that their is a future for Motif in either or both the OpenSource and
>commercial markets. That may seem like a silly question but if you and
>I believe Motif is still a viable GUI technology we need to be active in
>making sure of it.
[...]
>From what I hear/read I'm not so sure what we can do about
Motif. It's rather easy to get something in LessTif but in general
we were all the time just following what "they" did earlier.
Even with a CVS somewhere (speaking of OM) it's not clear to me in
which direction things will move. And I doubt that 2-3 individuals will be able
to specify/change the direction. (as opposed to LessTif - but
here the goals are rather well defined)
>Future of Lesstif
>-----------------
>
>As for the future of Lesstif... Unless the project team feels that it is
>very close to having a compatible CDE/Motif 2.1 then I think that the
>best thing to do would be for the project to refocus its efforts on projects
>which would help Motif in general become more widespread.
[...]
Very good point :-)
We do so in continuing our efforts.
I always have the idea in mind that all people which bring up statement
like yours live either on linux or *BSD - which is really not the whole world.
As long as Motif is not available as free software (i.e. no platform
restrictions) we can't stop. Or better: I don't want LessTif to stop.
So I don't see a correlation between improving Motif and development
on LessTif. If you want to stop our cloning work send ("daily" :-) petitions to the
copyright holders - not to the LessTif development team.
(imagine the situation we could have today if Motif would have become OM
5 years ago - but don't forget about software which did not benefit from going
open source. Hmm, I think it couldn't be worse ...)
BTW, WRT 2.1 -
not sure about the manpower which will back it, but in general LessTif's 2.x
library will improve now since it will become the default LessTif version
soon. This is similar to the old days when just the 1.2 version was
incomplete and default ...
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Alexander Mai
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