<SNAP ON> ---------- From: James A. Robinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 2:48 AM To: Christopher R. Hertel Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOffice under Debian)
> Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the > issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif? Motif is a set of "proprietary" libraries licensed by OSF. So it costs money to get them. I've bought them for $99.00 at InfoMagic (http://www.infomagic.com), but I've heard some people quote and amazingly low price of $40.00. Normally one sees them going for $200.00 or so. Lesstif is an attempt to duplicate the API of Motif, without using the proprietary source code. They want to allow anybody to compile and run Motif programs using Lesstif. Lesstif is free, and is put out by the Hungry Programmers (http://www.hungry.com). As far as I can tell, it is still very unstable, and not usable for something like StarOffice. But others who have actually used it should speak up. Jim <SNAP OFF> That's the price for the shared libraries distributions from OSF Motif... You mostly got more with the Infomagic CD :) There're some really low price if you buy from OSF Direct Office but I don't understand nothing about their licences. Whatever, this is the address : http://www.osf.org/motif/ But thanks for the lesstif... it's the first time, I was really happy to find this version of LaserChess! Fab.
