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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GUI WARS!
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.005945.13918@alphalpha.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 00:59:45 GMT
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In article <22979@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes:
>I for one am a little sick of products only written for particular windowing
>systems. I run a small net of about 15 machines. Plenty of stuff runs under
>regular MIT X. But my boss has just informed me of a few new products we are
>buying, one of which needs Open Windows, the other requiring Motif. Now tell
>me why I must go through the agony of trying to make 3 windowing packages
>share my disk? Can't X code be written so that it takes advantage of OL or
>MOTIF's features if you have it, but still run under MIT?

Motif applications *do* run under both OL and Mit X.  Motif doesn't
not require any specific type of X server.  If you've got products
that require Open Windows, then run that and everything else will
be fine.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.