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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: ATT/OSF settling on Motif and SVR4?
Message-ID: <8939@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Nov 89 09:20:47 GMT
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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I just saw a wierd article in this week's InfoWorld about AT&T and OSF having
high level discussions about how to merge the Unix worlds.

Apparently as something that OSF could contribute, it looks like
AT&T will be dropping Open Look in favor of Motif?  (OSF hasn't done
much else that AT&T might want...)

There was also a sentence about OSF members buying into the AT&T
Unix Software Operation (perhaps to make it less controlled by AT&T,
they will make it a separate company and sell stock to other companies).

What a shame, now that Open Look is free and available, and Motif
is expensive and not shipping...

Corrections to these obviously wild-eyed rumors welcomed.
-- 
John Gilmore      {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu      gnu@toad.com
    Just say *yes* to drugs.  Use your *no*s for government bullshit.