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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView
Keywords: XView, Open Look
Message-ID: <12907@jade.BBN.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 20:38:39 GMT
References: <5542@stiatl.UUCP>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>XView is Sun's toolkit for use with View2, their merged Sunview/X11
>server. It is not yet available, and will be sold by Sun, I believe.
>I don't think it will be PD...

Arrgghh.... How many times do we have to watch the same old misinformation 
get posted?  

XView is an almost SunView-compatible toolkit that uses something very
similar to the SunView API to implement Open Look window semantics on
top of X11.  In days past, the XView toolkit was sometimes called View2.

View2 is NOT the name of the merged NeWS/X11 server.  In fact, I don't
think I've ever *heard* an official name applied to it, except for the
Open Windows rubric that covers the server, toolkit(s), etc.

XView is being donated to MIT for inclusion on the X11R4 tape.  It will
be freely and publicly available to everyone.  No royalties or anything
(which is more than you can say for Motif at the moment!  A good move
by Sun...)

Now, just to make sure that I'm not guilty of propagating my own brand
of misinformation, will someone from Sun PLEASE repeat the Official Party 
Line?
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