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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <5573@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 19:10:25 GMT
References: <9101281521.AA06109@fis1.shearson.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>> ...they think Motif will win because of the MASSIVE base of people who
>> already know PM and can pick up Motif with very little effort.
>               ^^
>	Just in case you haven't read the paper today (WSJ),  
>	Microsoft killed all OS/2 and PM development...

Well, I read the paper today, and Microsoft denied it.  Also, if Windows
3.0's L&F is similar enough to that of PM (I think it's pretty similar),
the argument may apply there as well (I suspect, in fact, that the
original poster may have been thinking more of Windows 3.0 than PM; I'm
not sure there exists a "MASSIVE base of people who already know PM").

One anecdotal bit of evidence exists for the theory stated by the poster
arguing in favor of Motif; a friend of mine here reports that a friend
of his liked the fact that Motif was like either PM or Windows - I no
longer remember which - because when they switched from their PC to
their UNIX box, stuff worked much the same way.