Re: A strawman proposal for X.org & XFree86.org
Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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> Don't think about what your Linux Distribution includes/included. > There is lots of third-party applications developed either inhouse or by > ISVs that use Motif. Motif was and still is for a while _the_ standard > toolkit for commercial development. With Sun's recent move and Linux > becoming more important this might change to gtk - but that's a _very_ > _very_ long way. And OpenMotif (or lesstif for people with binary modules loaded[1]) has been seperate from X11 for a long time. Its the cobol of X11 and it isnt going to go away that soon. Other example third party apps include old Netscape4, Acrobat Reader, ... Alan [1] Ages ago I asked the Motif people if Linux will binary modules loaded qualified as an "Open source OS" for their license - they said no.