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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.172559.7455@alphalpha.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 17:25:59 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.172142@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>In article <9009181549.AA29380@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>,
>cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes:
>|> 
>|> 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?
>
>Sure; a Rationale is an essential part of our process.  The User
>Environment Component rationale is quite a thick document, and
>certainly went to all Members.  I can't find my copy right now.  Kee?

What?  You want me to scan in it and post it? :-)

Seriously though (to cflatter), what question did you have about
the rationale?  About the technical reasoning or the political poppycock?

					-kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.