On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote:
> Hey just check out the latest Slashdot. TOG has released Motif under a
> weird open-source license. It basically is.. you are free to redistribute
> if the underlying OS is open-source. That's not BSDish, but it's not GNU
> either.. somewhere in between (although I'm sure RMS will find fault :)
>
> But anyway, this now means Linux/BSD can have the enterprise toolkit
> (important for them vertical/enterprise apps.. like Oracle GUIs) bundled.
> Of course we all love Gtk and GNOME, but Motif is a requirement for many
> corporate deployments.
Well, there goes LessTif, gone the way of Project Harmony. Woudn't it be nice
and save A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT if we didn't have to create parallel
development efforts just because some jerk or jerked company wouldn't
open-source a particular library or application.
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