OPen Source MOTIF for Open Source OS???

Patrick Doyle doylep at ecf.utoronto.ca
Mon May 15 17:29:01 UTC 2000


On Mon, 15 May 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> Can the OpenMOTIF be compiled using Cygwin on Windows and distributed?
> 
> I would argue that it is the layer acting like the OS that needs to be
> open, not necessarily everything down to the microcode. 

It depends on what they are trying to accomplish.  If they are trying to
promote open OSes like GNU/Linux or BSD, perhaps they should simply
require an open-source kernel, excluding modules.

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Patrick Doyle
doylep at ecf.toronto.edu





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