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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:17:37 -0700
Organization: Me
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Ray Auchterlounie wrote:
[ ... link server, like the old ref.tfs.com kernel compilation
server ... ]
] It's ugly but not impossible. Along the same lines though, how about a
] client-server setup where clients request motif widgets/objects from
] one server. Statically link motif into the server and... free motif.
]
] I didnt invent this, others have already done it - DIOSS I think
] it was called.
Like DIOSS, you would have to go back to a Motif 1.2 license to
prevent the license terms from prohibiting this.
I'v eoften thought that X should provide an object interface,
and that look-and-feel should be implemented in X server --
like the window manager should be.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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