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From: Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:35:34 +0100
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>Ray Auchterlounie wrote:
[...]
>] client-server setup where clients request motif widgets/objects from
>] one server. Statically link motif into the server and... free motif.
[...]
>Like DIOSS, you would have to go back to a Motif 1.2 license to
>prevent the license terms from prohibiting this.
Ah, thanks for the clarification on that. It's tempting to suggest
that if they've gone to the trouble of changing the license to
prohibit it, it was probably a good idea... :(
>I'v eoften thought that X should provide an object interface,
>and that look-and-feel should be implemented in X server --
>like the window manager should be.
...well _that_ should take some of the heat off Lai & Baker... ;-)
<Fx: ducks, Nomex suit on... >
Actually, I agree. Could make X an awful lot more usable for remote
clients over slow networks for a start.
ray
--
Ray Auchterlounie Research Student (still) at:
<rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> Signal Processing Group
<rda@eng.cam.ac.uk> Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
"Don't ask me about my thesis (TM)"