On Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:12:10 -0400, you wrote:
>I've been hearing about Motif for a long time now, and I don't know what the
>heck it actually is. I did a web search, and I wound up going to someplace
>called the "Open Software Foundation", which certainly sounded promising.
>The site has an "org" domain name, and they thank all these different software
>companies for supporting them financially. When I clicked on Motif, on their
>main menu, I was sent to a page which listed info on Motif. I clicked on how to
>obtain a license, and I got a price list which said that a source code license
>costs $17,000.00!!
>
>I thought Motif was a WM. What WM is worth that kind of money?
>
>Do you have to be running Motif to run programs which require Motif, or do you
>just have to have the support files on your HD? Is there a way to get programs
>which require Motif to work without spending a lot of money?
Motif is a development toolkit, which also includes mwm, the motif
window manager. A *binary* copy of Motif should run around $100. You
don't need a source code license to run Motif.
Before you do anything, try lesstif, the free version of Motif at
http://www.lesstif.org
Lesstif is source-compatible with Motif; for example, the Mozilla
code, which was written for Motif, compiles using Lesstif. I'm not
sure about binary compatibility.
