re motif vs athena etc in article c k ny azj kirk bu oz au bambi kirk bu oz au david j hughes writes berry durian citr uq oz au andrew berry writes ports of motif to both bsd and linux are available for a fee of about this is cost recovery for the person who bought the rights to redistribute the activity in both the bsd and linux news groups pertaining to motif has been high i just wonder if this will also cause a divergence between commercial and non commercial software ie you will only get free software using athena or openlook widget sets and only get commercial software using the motif widget sets i can t see why if just about every workstation will come with motif by default and you can buy it for under for the free unix platforms i can t see this causing major problems let me add another of my concerns yes i can buy a port of motif for cheap but i cannot get the source for cheap hence i am limited to using whatever x libraries the motif port was compiled against at least with older versions of motif i have been told that motif can be used with any x but i have not seen it myself currently i have x r running on eight different unix platforms of which only three came with motif on those three i am unable to use the x r libraries to build motif clients because i get link errors between the vendor supplied port of motif and my x r i anticipate having this same problem when x r becomes available the result is that i cannot build motif clients that rely on x r since i do not have motif compiled under x r true i could buy another port of motif but that sort of ruins the whole idea of free doesn t it cheers tom mcconnell tom mcconnell internet tmcconne sedona intel com intel corp c phone w chandler blvd the opinions expressed are my own no one in chandler az their right mind would claim them
