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Re: Motif is now Open Source
Chen Shapira wrote:
>
> > Take a look at
> >
> > http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/
> >
>
> No it isn't.
> http://www.linuxprogramming.com/news/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-05-17-001-03-
> CD
>
> The source is avaliable only for "free software" platform, this doesn't
> conform to the open source definition - so it isn't open source.
>
> Besides - motif sucks.
1. Others have commented about the incorrect links; I simply truncated
the link to what I showed above and
it got me there.
2. Motif may not be as easy to use an Win32 (which I have never used) or
the OS/2 PM which I have used.
None of these provide the networking model underlying X, and Motif as a
widget set, seems no better or no morse than either of the former. I
would recommend that anyone interested, should take a look at the the
relevant discussion on the O'Reilly site (www.oreilly.com). I would
agree that the Xlib/Xt/Motif libraries could use
a bit of an API facelift at the very least to the level of C++ wrapper
classes (which is not that difficult).
3. The issue of the openness of the source has been addressed in the
above news story, and it is not final. Motif is however, sufficiently
"open", for interested developers to consider where to go next, and
application programmers like me, to find out how certain things of
interest are done.
4. Whether I am right or not, the (very professional) remark, that
"motif sucks" is not very helpful.
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