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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, 30 Apr 1996 12:46:26 -0700
Organization: Me
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Richard Hesketh wrote:
]
] In article <31794DB6.7DE974DF@lambert.org>,
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
] >I'd argue that the people you are talking about belong to
] >the second group -- they aren't willing to cook a bunch of
] >Saturdays on building "Word for X windows".
]
] I assume you know about the "Hungry Programmers"
] (http://www.hungry.com/) and their clone of Motif 1.2?
Yes. I was one of the first people on their mailing list. I
was the guy who suggested digests.
] One of their current projects is "XWord", a free word
] processor for X which requires the Motif clone 8-) It
] looks like they need volunteers as it appears most of
] their effort is in the Motif clone LessTiff.
Their Lesstif clone worries me, mostly because of potential
legal problems caused by the way it was developed. They are
implementing interfaces which aren't publically documented
anywhere (programming books, OSF books, etc.) except in OSF
header files and the namelist of OSF libXm.a.
Their word processor will, hoepefully, compile with standard
Motif (or a less promiscuous clone).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.