On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> None of the arguments matter.  On *Solaris* at least, motif is 
> effectively legacy, because *nobody* is maintaining it or writing new 
> applications on it.  

Except that your claim above isn't true, unless you mean to limit it to
Sun or OpenSolaris.  There are at least TWO commercial companies
providing support for Motif, and some more that provide binaries for
sale. That's more than there are for BIND.

> Nobody should be writing new Solaris applications using Motif if they
> can help it.  I believe the same advice is applicable to people
> writing applications on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.  (I don't
> know about HP-UX and AIX -- they might still be stuck in the CDE
> era...)

Well, that's your opinion and you're welcome to your opinion.  But
perhaps its not too much to ask that people avoid the prejudicial
offensively-worded non-factual claims.

Thanks,

                --Dean

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