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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!unet!blunt!dsilvia From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com () Subject: Re: MOTIF Message-ID: <1993Mar1.175541.17032@unet.net.com> Sender: news@unet.net.com Nntp-Posting-Host: blunt Organization: Network Equipment Technologies References: <C2ys3q.LzM@iat.holonet.net> <1993Feb27.022716.264@unet.net.com> <JASON.93Mar1190746@ebisu.cv.sony.co.jp> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 17:55:41 GMT Lines: 15 In article <JASON.93Mar1190746@ebisu.cv.sony.co.jp> jason@cv.sony.co.jp (Jason Fischl) writes: > >Consider the situation where a software development company currently has a >package which runs on standard Unix platforms with Motif. They are interested >in porting to a PC running UNIX. But, asking them to port all of the Motif >code to some other widget set and then having to maintain both versions is >equivalent to telling them to just forget about porting it to a PC. > > Fine, let them get a license from OSF and build their application(s). That doesn't mean that OSF/Motif _has_ to be part of 386bsd (or even XFree86). The applications will still run just fine. Dave S.