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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Subject: Re: Mosaic Binary for NetBSD-1.0 Wanted
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Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 18:48:32 GMT

In article <3pfsm0$fcs@news.irisa.fr>,
Thierry Leconte <leconte@irisa.fr> wrote:

>Hum... Mosaic use Motif which isn't free, so no free binary ....

Absolutely not true.  NCSA has binaries available for FTP.  BSDI had
one up for FTP (I'm not sure if they still do...)  I personally have put
up a couple of binaries, one given to me for NetBSD/i386 and one I
built for NetBSD/hp300.  If someone wishes to invest (?) in Motif
and give away binaries to free programs which need to be linked with
it (but _not_ libraries), that's their choice.

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