Re: Lobby for Motif Development for NetBSD

[Jose Alburquerque <joselito%becky.smartec.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Markus Illenseer wrote:

>  I have been thinking about to create a CD-ROM which would include Motif
> licences for all "imortant" architectures supported by NetBSD. (Motif
> wants to be licensed "by CPU")
> 
>  There are several issues though:
> 
>  - which platforms are imortant?
>  - which applications are available at all which require Motif?
> 
>  The last issue is of main importance and a search yielded into the 
> conclusion that a Motif-Distribution is just too expensive and does not
> rectify the price of the CD-ROM (About 70 to 150$US).
> 
>  A good alternative would be to have a common place where Motif is installed
> and where statically linked binaries could be compiled and then be 
> distributed. But who...?
> 
> -- 
> Markus Illenseer
> 

I would not mind having my system for this purpose.  However, my Amiga
2000/030 at 25 MHz is a bit slow for compilation.  I'm soon getting a
Pentium which could also be used for this purpose, but I would really like
to see Motif for NetBSD/Amiga, as I'm planning to upgrade to a faster
processor with more memory.  I would also like to see CDE (if possible)
for either platform.  Maybe I could setup a cross-compilation environment
on the Pentium (I've done it before and I think it can be done).  If
necessary, I guess I'm volunteering.  But I wouldn't mind paying for the
CD if neccessary also. 


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