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Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hatch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:53 AM
> To: Alexander Mai
> Subject: RE: [Lesstif] OpenMotif 2.2 status...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Alexander Mai
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:36 AM
> > To: Lesstif-Mailinglist
> > Subject: Re: [Lesstif] OpenMotif 2.2 status...
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:06:43 -0500, Mark Hatch wrote:
> > 
> > >We did include the OpenGroup. They even provided a quote for the press
> > >release (see http://www.ics.com/forum/forum.php?forum_id=62).  
> There were
> > >obviously more politics than we understood in the background here...
> > 
> > I see.
> > Bashing on each other will unfortunately not help Motif
> > at all, and so later on probably hurt all participants...
> 
> Absolutely agree. That is why we read the paper, extracted the 
> valid technical comments, and started working on them. (BTW: 
> We've invited IST to work with us.) We all benefit from a 
> stronger Motif community. That is one of the reasons I've 
> followed this list for several years, and the MotifZone announces 
> new releases of Lesstif. If it was not for that &*&(*%&*%$ Motif 
> Public License, we wouldn't have the open source (Lesstif) vs 
> source available (Open Motif) split. 
> 
> 
> > 
> > >We're just going to keep our heads down and keep coding. Once we 
> > address the
> > >important issues in the paper, there will be no technical 
> reason for the
> > >"development release" title.
> > 
> > Well, for now the LessTif project is short of (human)
> > resources, so we would have problems anyway to come up with
> > a bunch new 2.x trees...
> 
> Since we own the original copyright to the additional 10 widgets 
> that were included in Motif 2.2, we would be happy to release 
> them to the Lesstif team under the LGPL. They were original Motif 
> 1.2 widgets, so they should be compatible with Lesstif. 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> > Alexander Mai
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