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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
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Date: 18 Sep 90 15:49:46 GMT
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>     About one month after OPEN LOOK was announced to be the user interface
>     for System 5 Release 4, the OSF began an RFT (Request for Technology) 
>     process for what is now called OSF/Motif.  OPEN LOOK was submitted by 
>     AT&T to the OSF as a candidate for the graphical user interface 
>     specification and style guide.  About one to two months later, OSF 
>     announced the Motif decision.  Motif is a combination of technologies
>     from DEC, HP, and Microsoft.

As a matter of morbid curiosity, has OSF ever made the reasoning that lead
to their choice of a combination of elements from DEC, HP and Microsoft
public?

NB: I'm not trying to start a religious debate here, I just don't understand
why OSF did what they did.

			Chris Flatters