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Did The Open Group wait too long to make Motif publicly available?

April 26, 2017group Motif wait

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Did The Open Group wait too long to make Motif publicly available?

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At the end of 1999 the existing development and maintenance contracts for Motif (the OSF PST) came to an end and this presented an opportunity for The Open Group and the sponsors of the Motif PST to make the technology more widely available. The Existing Technology Committee of the OSF decided to move Motif toward the Open Source Market.