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From: mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  GA of OPEN LOOK Release 4  (Product Announcement)
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Date: 16 Dec 90 07:58:55 GMT
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> Subject: GA of OPEN LOOK Release 4  (Product Announcement)

> 		FOR RELEASE MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1990

Please cut the marketing BS when posting to xpert.

I refer to comments like

> 	SUMMIT, N.J. -- UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. (USL), today
> 	announced several new products which together make its OPEN
> 	LOOK(R) Graphical User Interface (GUI), already the easiest
> 	GUI to use, even easier.

Try instead

	SUMMIT, N.J. -- UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. (USL), today
	announced several new products for its OPEN LOOK GUI.

I could go on, picking apart the rest of the posting in detail, but
since this message is being sent to a great many mailboxes, I'll
restrain myself to pointing out a couple of invalid implicit
assumptions and near-lies.  (Why am I posting this to the list?  It's a
(probably hopeless) attempt to keep it from happening again.)

> 	its OPEN LOOK(R) Graphical User Interface (GUI), already the
> 	easiest GUI to use,

This is entirely a matter of opinion.  I find that OL is nearly
unusable.  Not everybody agrees with you as to what makes a GUI easy to
use, and indeed, the very thing that makes a GUI easy-to-use for one
user is often a major impediment for another.

> 	An intuitive user interface, OPEN LOOK GUI contains a
> 	completely ``customizable'' environment featuring icons,
> 	push-pins, pull-down menus, point-and-click desktop and file
> 	manager, and other utilities found in ``user-friendly''
> 	systems.

`Completely' customizable?  I have yet to see *any* GUI, other than the
one I designed and implemented myself, that can be customized to my
taste.  (To pick a simple example: how do I get rid of the title bars?)

I would estimate that your posting could have been cut by a factor of
2, probably 3, without impairing its information content.  (If you want
me to demonstrate, mail me a copy and I'll mail back an edited-down
version.)  The 50 to 70 percent I refer to may be appropriate in an
advertising glossy, or in biz.*, but surely not here.

					der Mouse

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