On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Mitch Marantz wrote:
//I've been hearing about Motif for a long time now, and I don't know what the
//heck it actually is. I did a web search, and I wound up going to someplace
//called the "Open Software Foundation", which certainly sounded promising.
//The site has an "org" domain name, and they thank all these different software
//companies for supporting them financially. When I clicked on Motif, on their
//main menu, I was sent to a page which listed info on Motif. I clicked on how to
//obtain a license, and I got a price list which said that a source code license
//costs $17,000.00!!
//
//I thought Motif was a WM. What WM is worth that kind of money?
noooo, it's a complete GUI (Graphical User Interface) API (Applications
programming interface) that lets you write programs under X that use windows,
mice and other stuff like that. It's actually not that interesting, try
GTK+ (www.gtk.org) it's FREE and much nicer!
//Do you have to be running Motif to run programs which require Motif, or do you
//just have to have the support files on your HD? Is there a way to get programs
//which require Motif to work without spending a lot of money?
No, you don't need motif on your system to _run_ motif programs, but you'll
need it's runtime libraries installed (which i think come free with Linux
ayway.. or maybe not, i can't remember), You need motif to
_compile_ motif programs, if it runs with motif try getting the
'statically linked' version, it'll be bigger but doesn't need motif to work.
there's a free version called LessTif (www.lesstif.org?) Which works the same
way as Motif but is free.
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