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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Open Look *and* OSF/Motif?  Why bother...
Keywords: toolkit, Open Look, OSF/Motif, GUI
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.220720.5215@visix.com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 22:07:20 GMT
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tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:

>I don't give a flying #$%)@!# which L&F wins, as long as *one* of
>them dies quickly and gracefully.  Then we can get together and bury
>DOS, OS/2, SAA, and the Macintosh (with some regrets in the latter
>case).

I go even further--I don't even care if *any* of them "wins."  This
isn't a football game (although sometimes I wonder :)).  All I want to
do is (a) sell software, and (b) use software, without having to worry
about "look and feel" differences.  For that matter, I don't even want
to have to worry about OS differences, or hardware differences.  A
workstation is just a set of resources.  It's some input devices, some
output devices, some storage, and some computing power.  Period.  All
the rest of it is simply a means for the software I use to gain the
use of those resources.  As long as it can, I don't care how it does
it.  As an application developer, I should care either...

>Motif, you're Good Enough.  You too, Open Look.  Now will one of you please
>bugger off and die.

I suspect they both will, eventually.  This industry is still very young.
-- 
Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
Visix Software Inc.					...!uunet!visix!amanda
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