Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!dialogic!gerry From: gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Why OpenWindows instead of Motif ? Message-ID: <1991Feb16.193836.2443@dialogic.com> Date: 16 Feb 91 19:38:36 GMT References: <1991Feb14.211546.21222@ugle.unit.no> <1991Feb15.235403.12606@cid.aes.doe.CA> Organization: Dialogic Corporation Lines: 22 In article <1991Feb15.235403.12606@cid.aes.doe.CA> aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) writes: >I don't know about Commodore specifically. But For those of you >who are unitiated in the UNIX standards wars... There are two camps > >OSF -- Open Software Foundation The Motif Camp >Unix International The OpenLook/Windows Camp But unfortunately, the GUI crosses over this boundary. For instance, Interactive, SCO, ESIX and the other 386-box UNIX SysV3 vendors supply the Motif widgets and toolkits for their System V Release 3 products. I see no reason why they won't do that for their Release 4 versions (I haven't seen their Rel 4 offerings yet). I believe OpenLook/Windows is provided by AT&T as part of the standard Release 4 package to their licensees (ie CBM, SCO, Sun, etc), and it up to the licensee to provide it. As a side note, most of the commercial products I've seen at trade shows seem to use the Motif widgets rather than the OpenLook widgets.