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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif vs OpenLook (Rat poison)
Message-ID: <9007040726.AA02106@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 4 Jul 90 07:26:09 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>> If I ever buy a workstation...I will require that it *not* come with
>> Motif.  I have no interest in paying extra for something I don't
>> want and won't be using.

> How about it if somebody who has never bought a workstation could
> just shut up and let the real people talk.

Well excuuuuse me.  As it happens I am currently looking for a
workstation.  I expect I will get a '386 box - and I won't buy a
windowing system with it.

> How about a serious example of a workstation vendor that provides no
> window environment or just supports raw-X?

Any cheap DOS box should do fine.  Or does that somehow not count as a
workstation?

> This lowers the lifetime cost per-user from the point of view of the
> end user.

As I said before, but apparently I need to say again: I won't be using
it, so any money at all I have to pay for it is completely wasted.  I
don't know about you, but I don't appreciate having to waste money.

					der Mouse

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