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Motif would probably be a little too much. I always perceived Motif as the ugliest GUI toolkit I've ever seen. Now as I age I started to appreciate retro GUIs a
by qwerty456127 5y ago
Motif would probably be a little too much. I always perceived Motif as the ugliest GUI toolkit I've ever seen. Now as I age I started to appreciate retro GUIs and began seeing some charm in Motif but it certainly requires some intentional "will to love". Or maybe it is just an acquired taste like
surströmming or something like that.
And someone related to the SCO Group can probably patent-troll you if you use it. There are no giants like RedHat and Novel to protect SerenityOS in such an event the way they protect Linux.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI'm not aware that SCO ever owned patents, just claimed to have copyrights, and Motif has been open source for years.
- qwerty456127 5y ago> Motif has been open source for years. So has Linux, yet SCO didn't hesitate to spend enormous amount of lawyer-hours attacking it. AFAIK even simple scroll bars and double clicks are patented, the patent holders (Microsoft and Apple, IIRC) just have generously allowed the GNU/Linux community to use them.
- isr 5y agoI don't know if you mentioned scrollbars as a rhetorical argument, or literally. But if the latter, then ... (queue rant) ... What? Even scrollbars? Shows just how broken, regressive and anti-innovation the US Patent system is. Its part of software legend how Jobs et al learned of these concepts through early exposure to Smalltalk. There are numerous videos of Jobs himself talking about it (with requisite amounts of awe). I'm sure most people here already know the history. Theres even the interesting tale of how Jobs critiqued the scrolling (he prefered something smoother than line-by-line scrolling), and Dan Ingalls live coded a solution in a few minutes. "Prior art" indeed :)