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From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X marks the suit
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Date: 6 Aug 90 15:05:14 GMT
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|> But then again, SWM looks a lot like
|> TWM, which was done when Tom LaStrange was at E&S, and it copyrighted
|> by them and MIT.  Perhaps Solbourne is in fact violating someone elses
|> copyright by beeing too close to the look and feel of TWM (although
|> that software can be modified & sold according to the copyright).

How does swm look a lot like twm?

I know this doesn't have much to do with the original message but I
would have to say that swm and twm are as different as apples and oranges.
They're both window managers but in terms of look-and-feel, customization,
and features, they're not even close.

--
Tom LaStrange

Solbourne Computer Inc.    ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM
1900 Pike Rd.              UUCP: ...!{boulder,sun}!stan!toml
Longmont, CO  80501