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Re: Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

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Les Mikesell wrote:

Steve Underwood wrote:
Installing lesstif is a waste of time. Its a useless piece of junk,and people like RedHat and other distribution vendors are to blame.It was moving alone nicely until they decided OpenMotif was good. Bythe time they decided it was bad people had given up working onlesstif. Maybe it was all a big plot to kill off the motif worldcompletely.
Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone triedto clone it. You don't need to blame anyone else for killing it off.
> Whatever the
cause, it now means using Grace, Nedit and a few other favourites isa right PITA with Fedora.
Yes, if Motif had been open, or lesstif had worked from the start, alot of things could be about a decade ahead of where they are now...

Well, that seems like a totally meaningless response, lacking anyconnection with history.

OpenMotif was made open. The distros, like RedHat went for it anddropped support for lesstif, killing its development. Later, theydecided OpenMotif wasn't open enough after all - seems like a case of alack of due diligence - but by this time lesstif had withered and died.Now they have put a totally useless lesstif back into their distros, andcarry on as if nothing is wrong. The only snag is nothing requiring amotif environment actually works properly.


Regards,
Steve