Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK is not FREE ( $1000 + $500 extra machine)
Message-ID: <3633@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 17:00:11 GMT
References: <435@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Hay, Open Look is not Free,

"Open Look" is not a product, it's a specification; the books containing
the specification do, indeed, cost money.

However, I think this discussion is largely referring to
*implementations* of that specification; e.g., toolkits and window
managers.

There exist Open Look toolkits that are free (XView), and Open Look
toolkits that cost money (AT&T's XT+, and, I think, Sun's NeWS-based
tNt).  There exist Open Look window managers that are free ("olwm", in
the contributed software part of the X11R4 release), and Open Look
window managers that cost money (AT&T's X-based one, and, I think, Sun's
"pswm" that manages both X and NeWS windows). 

>look what I receive from a claimed sales rep.
>
>| Received: by uel.co.uk (UNIX System Laboratories Europe Ltd.)

USL used to be USO, which is still, I think, owned by AT&T.  Therefore,
she is probably speaking of the AT&T Open Look toolkit, window manager,
etc., which, as indicated above, cost money.