Re: Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

[Steve Underwood <steveu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. By 
> > the time they decided it was bad people had given up working on 
> > lesstif. Maybe it was all a big plot to kill off the motif world 
> > completely.
>
> Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone tried 
> to 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 is 
> > a right PITA with Fedora.
>
> Yes, if Motif had been open, or lesstif had worked from the start, a 
> lot of things could be about a decade ahead of where they are now...

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

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

Regards,
Steve