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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
Message-ID: <1210046@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 15:46:11 GMT
References: <9009171845.AA02659@kimba.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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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?

Well I don't have the rationale handy (so hit me with a stick if I'm 
wrong), but I think one of the reasons Open Look was not chosen was because
AT&T only offered the spec and a style guide, not an sample implementation.

			-- Chan