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Ah yes, Motif! Now I remember, I stand corrected. Before Gnome, Qt, KDE we of course had motif and X with it's license issues. If I remember correctly, early S
by repelsteeltje 2y ago
Ah yes, Motif! Now I remember, I stand corrected.
Before Gnome, Qt, KDE we of course had motif and X with it's license issues. If I remember correctly, early Slackware CD bundles came with motif as well.
- rbanffy 2y agoThere was a free implementation called “lesstif” IIRC. Motif was proprietary until much later, as was CDE. IXI’s desktop runs on top of Motif.
- sillywalk 2y agoIIRC, KDE was created because Motif/CDE were proprietary, but QT was free and had an open-source license, but wasn't compatible with the GPL. There was an agreement with Troltech, the creators of QT that would make QT available under a BSD-style license if they didn't release a free/open-source version after a year. GNOME was created because of license issues with QT not being compatible with the GPL, so GNOME used GTK which was created by the GIMP project because Motif wasn't free.