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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!?
Message-ID: <1742@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 30 Aug 89 01:56:18 GMT
References: <8908292118.AA07788@paba.sun.com>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <8908292118.AA07788@paba.sun.com> rprobst@SUN.COM (Richard Probst) writes:
>Of course, Sun
>continues to promote OPEN LOOK as the technically superior GUI
>spec;

Let's not get started on that, please.  Several people from Sun have
stated in public forums that many features of Open Look were picked not
because they were technically superior but because, to avoid lawsuits,
they were different from other interfaces that shall remain nameless.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente