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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!Sirius.dfn.de!olymp!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: MOTIF Message-ID: <1993Mar3.142549.8838@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <C2ys3q.LzM@iat.holonet.net> <1993Feb27.022716.264@unet.net.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 14:25:49 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1993Feb27.022716.264@unet.net.com> dsilvia@blunt.net.com () writes: >... For the slight (immho :^) aesthetic advantage of having shadows on >every graphic object, there is no benefit in OSF/Motif. As much as we could argue about taste and Motif look-and-feel, there is one benefit that you cannot deny: uniformity. Our Convex has Motif, our SGIs have it, and my 386bsd machine has it too. The real world is like that. I don't have time to familiarize myself with a different window manager for every machine I use. >... Also, let us remember, 386bsd's stated purpose is furthering operating >system and networking development. Buying software and rights to use/modify it >somehow seems to violate this (IMHO). I don't think so. I am grateful that Enricio provided this service for the 386bsd community, and at a fraction of the price that Motif costs on most other platforms. His port works fine, and I use his mwm every day. -- Volker -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany)