The LessTif project was started in 1994 by Chris Toshok and The Hungry Programmers to provide the free software community with a free (think beer and speech) implementation of this important standard library. LessTif aims to achieve source compatibility with commercial versions of Motif so that it can serve as a plug-in replacement for Motif. Binary compatibility may be an unachievable goal in all cases, but it may be possible in some cases.