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From: mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re: GA of OPEN LOOK Release 4
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Date: 18 Dec 90 07:18:32 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'm sorry if you found it inappropriate for this forum, but I simply
> forwarded a press announcement without any modification.

Precisely.  When the `press announcement' is this full of
self-back-patting and (other) semantically null rhetoric, I consider it
inappropriate for xpert.

>> I refer to comments like
[...]
> Have you had a chance to use our OPEN LOOK 4.0?  If you haven't, what
> are your comments based on?

Your posted `press announcement'.  I am/was not criticizing OL; I
am/was criticizing your posting.

> Some human-factors studies (outside of AT&T and/or USL) showed that
> OPEN LOOK had the highest satisfaction ratings when compared against
> Presentation Manager and Motif.

Well, if those were the only other choices, I might pick OL too.
(*Might*, I say; I don't know.)  I don't suppose any of these studies
let the users design their own interfaces?  No, of course not;
everybody knows that one design team in California knows more about how
thousands of users all over the world want their UIs to behave than the
users themselves do.

Besides, we all know that studies are like benchmarks - look hard
enough and you can always find some that can be construed to support
your case.  If I cared enough to bother I would even write to the PM
and Motif people and ask them about studies supporting their UIs as
"the best".  I doubt not they would gladly cite such....

					der Mouse

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