Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!linus!linus!ramsdell From: ramsdell@mitre.org (John D. Ramsdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: X11 opinion. Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 90 11:56:59 GMT References: <9224@helios.TAMU.EDU> <564@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <577@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: ramsdell@linus.mitre.org Reply-To: ramsdell@mitre.org Organization: Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA. Lines: 27 In-reply-to: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu's message of 22 Oct 90 07:08:22 GMT In article <577@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: ..... Yes, the world would be a better place if X11 could be replaced by NeXTStep---but it can't be, since it is proprietary. Actually, I hope someday NeXT gives a great gift to the computer industry and makes NeXTStep freely available to run on other platforms. This, of course, would be a radical thing to do---but NeXT is just the company that could do such a thing. ..... -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) Do you really think there is hope that the company that is promoting Lotus software will make NeXTStep freely available to run on other platforms? What do you think IBM would say about this action? How about the investors in NeXT Inc.? Do you know something you are not telling? John