There is no "CDE era" Motif. Version 2.1 of Motif is not "ancient and
obsolete", as you claim. Motif has been very stable with no major
changes. Your "perception" about the messages being meant as references
to only Sun's version of Motif are just as invalid as those of Alan
Coopersmiths.
Advocacy of software (or anything for that matter) is no justification
to accept bald factual lies, and no reason not to inform the appropriate
lawyers of such factually false and disparaging claims. You seem to
think that bald lies are somehow acceptable conduct---but of course,
that's why there are lawyers and courts and commercial disparagement
suits.
Anyway, no one from Sun has made any attempt whatsoever to correct the
false and disparaging statements regarding Motif Section 508 compliance
and Motif support status, so its up to the lawyers, now.
Good day.
--Dean
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Dale Ghent wrote:
>
> On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> > I can't speak for those three companies, but their lawyers might have
> > some concerns about Sun going around telling people there is no
> > support
> > for Motif and that Motif doesn't support 508 accessibility
> > requirements.
>
> The feeling I got when reading the initial replies on this thread was
> that the Sun folks were speaking within the context of the Motif
> libraries shipped by Sun, which are from the era of CDE, not a modern
> implementation of OpenMotif or whatever is contemporary. In this
> context, the comparison is not disparaging if it's true, and its true.
>
> You've taken all this to mean or refer to modern Motif, an animal of a
> bit different color. If you want to see OpenMotif or whatever
> introduced in OpenSolaris in order to replace the ancient and Obsolete
> CDE Motif libraries, you like anyone else is encouraged to get a
> sponsor and do so. Wouldn't this route be more preferable as an
> advocate of a piece of software vs. emitting threats of legal action?
>
> /dale
>
>
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