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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Message-ID: <id.Z37M1.525@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3vfqif$agh@agate.berkeley.edu> <3vggp3$jvb@felix.junction.net> <3vjnu5$7jo@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 20:29:06 GMT Lines: 17 In article <3vjnu5$7jo@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Well, you are and you're not. You're exposing an API for using Motif > widgets indirectly, but you're not exposing the Motif API itself which > is where the OSF's money is (selling to people who need the Motif API > documented in the manuals). And the OSF has always permitted static > linking anyway, so? So it'll be a tool distributed without source? That's a pretty big negative, when Tcl/Tk is just a drop-in, and there's a character-mode interface that's Tk-compatible. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Bailey Network Management 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"