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From: cook@sgi.com (Doug Cook)
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Subject: Re: What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
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Date: 16 Oct 90 18:58:48 GMT
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In article <9010161109.AA02249@zardoz.noname> don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar) writes:
>Let me couch my last request so there are no misunderstandings.  I
>believe it will be the market that sets the defacto standard UI
>in the UNIX arena.  But it will be the software marketplace, not the
>hardware marketplace that renders the final decision.  Everyone who is
>trying to make predictions at this point is still trying to figure
>out who is going to win the superbowl on the first day of the season.

I disagree. Motif was being pushed as "the standard" well before it
was even released; there were people committed to use it practically before
they saw it. There's far more politics than market decision going on here.
If it is a Super Bowl, it's a Super Bowl of lemmings; you *can* predict what
will happen to all of them from observing the first one jump off the cliff.

Make no mistake; I'm not saying anything at all about which toolkit I
think people should be using. I just don't think that the "market" is what
is deciding things, at least to a large degree.

	-Doug

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