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From: jhl@lockjaw.msu.edu (John Lawitzke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Jordan Hubbard: do you still want to sell Motif with FreeBSD?
Date: 8 Jul 1995 20:06:32 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: I looked into what it would cost to do our own version and was daunted
: by the high fees wanted by the OSF.  It's just not worth it for us, and
: I'm much more inclined to leave this in the hands of LaserMoon Ltd,
: who have promised to do a Motif port for FreeBSD 2.0.5.  You can contact
: them at info@lasermoon.co.uk

The latest issue of Unix Review has an article about a freeware project
which is under way called LessTif which is an implementation of the 
Motif development libraries.  Get a copy of the article, it may be a
cheap way to get Motif development support into FreeBSD.  Note that
the LessTif project still isn't 100% of the way there, but is weel on
its way.

The other missing piece would, of course, be mwm.  I've been told that
we're running a freeware mwm under Solaris on our SUNs.  I just learned
this a couple of days ago and have just started the process of finding 
out if this is true and, if so, were we got it.  The person who told 
me this says that we're getting Motif development libraries from SUN
but they aren't currently providing a mwm.  When I manage to find out
more, I'll pass it on.

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John Lawitzke              |  e-mail: jhl@egr.msu.edu
Manager, SNSS              |  
A.H. Case Center for CAEM  |  All opinions expressed are mine and
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