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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Message-ID: <id.Z37M1.525@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3vfqif$agh@agate.berkeley.edu> <3vggp3$jvb@felix.junction.net> <3vjnu5$7jo@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 20:29:06 GMT
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In article <3vjnu5$7jo@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Well, you are and you're not.  You're exposing an API for using Motif
> widgets indirectly, but you're not exposing the Motif API itself which
> is where the OSF's money is (selling to people who need the Motif API
> documented in the manuals).  And the OSF has always permitted static
> linking anyway, so?

So it'll be a tool distributed without source?

That's a pretty big negative, when Tcl/Tk is just a drop-in, and there's a
character-mode interface that's Tk-compatible.
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