LessTif is a defunct
free software
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reimplementation or
clone of the
Motif computer programming toolkit.
The project aimed for full
source
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binary-code compatibility with Motif. While this was not achieved, many Motif applications could run with LessTif or be compiled with it.
![Xmabacus-lesstif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Xmabacus-lesstif.png)
As opposed to Motif, which was distributed until October 2012 under a