In article <ellis.732740922@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:

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> Motif is currently a proprietary commercial product owned by OSF.  They do
> sell source code (Price?).  I believe that government and academic sites can
> license it cheaper than commercial companies.
> 
> This week's announcement at UniForum by Sun, HP, SCO, Novell/Univel/USL that
> they will all be supporting a common API with a user interface based on
> Motif, plus the involvement of X/Open may result in a drastic reduction in
> the licensing costs, even the contribution of Motif to the MIT X Consortium.

It's about time *somebody* did something about the exorbitant costs of
putting a windowing system on UNIX.  I have my doubts about X and UNIX
going much farther, though...  It seems like USG isn't interested in
or serious about putting UNIX on the desktop.  $250/copy for a minimal
system?  They've gotta be kidding themselves.  Microsoft says they'll
bring a complete O/S on board for less than half of that!
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