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Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?



Hi, Stanislav!

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:42:54PM +0200, you wrote the following:

> MZ>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, "Stanislav Malyshev" <frodo@sharat.co.il> wrote:
> MZ>> > This what amazes me most in the thing. Being unable to port Unix GUI,
> MZ>> > written on Motif (which is now even Open Source)
> MZ>>
> MZ>> Motif is not open source.
> 
> Ah. Open Motif is not Open Source (TM). But if you read explanations why
> it isn't (http://www.opennc.org/openmotif/faq.html) you see that it's
> irrelevant for Linux. So from what I gather, Open Motif on Linux meets the
> Open Source criteria.

It doesn't, because it can't be ported to other operating systems, as
far as I understand.


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