rms@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) (05/24/91)
Can Winterp be used with a toolkit other than Motif? If not, the FSF recommends that you not use Winterp. This is not because of anything wrong with Winterp itself. Rather, it is because of Motif. The FSF recommends against use of Motif because it is proprietary and will not be available in the GNU system. We will have only the free toolkits. Programs such as Winterp that use Motif won't run on a GNU system. The free X toolkits are improving. They deserve your support. They will improve faster if more people use them. If Winterp does require Motif, you could help the GNU project by porting it to run with other toolkits. This project would make Winterp available for use on GNU. Alternatively (and even better), you could implement a free version of Motif. But that's a lot of work. Porting Winterp is probably not too hard.