> > > > What do you mean? Making Lesstif and Motif binary compatible? > > > > You must have OSF source for that :) > > I know that if someone want to sell Motif, he needs to buy the source > from OSF and compile it. And if he wants to use the name "Motif" to > sell their compilation, he needs to pay extra royalties. > > So, I think: US$ 70,00 is really *much* money for only one or two > files.
There are many more Motif applications, Debian just doesn't "promote" them into the distribution due to its "non-free" nature. > I don't want to program with Motif, nor use the Motif Window > Manager for X (I use Afterstep) so, why not someone sells only the > libraries? Or even best: why Linux users don't join to buy the > source, compile these libraries, and distribute them for free? $40,000 was the cost of the Motif source license ... Alex Y. > > Maybe I'm crazy, but who knows? It's an idea... ;-) > > []'s Alexander Gieg > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > By: Alexander Gieg > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222/ > IRC: AlexG > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > There will be a time in which *all* the computers > in the Earth will be using Linux! Amen! -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-------------------------------------------+ | _ 7 | Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \ (") | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +-------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
