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0 pointsanthk5y ago0 comments

You forgot about porting and compiling software which depended on X11 and Motif. Linux won because of that.

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What for? That is what having something like Hummingbird took care of.

I used to admin UNIX and develop for it from Windows NT/2000 workstations.

Also the FOSS version of Motif only appeared when Motif wasn't that much relevant and most enterprise shops were migrating to CORBA and Web as integration points.

anthkOP5y ago

No, I mean when Motif + Slackware were an alternative to SGI machines in a brief time. Those were supported by big multimedia companies.

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pjmlp5y ago

What for? That is what having something like Hummingbird took care of.

I used to admin UNIX and develop for it from Windows NT/2000 workstations.

Also the FOSS version of Motif only appeared when Motif wasn't that much relevant and most enterprise shops were migrating to CORBA and Web as integration points.

anthkOP5y ago

No, I mean when Motif + Slackware were an alternative to SGI machines in a brief time. Those were supported by big multimedia companies.

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