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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Re: Opinions on prospective standards sought
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Date: 24 Apr 91 14:15:13 GMT
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Submitted-by: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)

In article <130193@uunet.UU.NET> pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) writes:
>OSF had sent in a request to be allowed to create a standard based on
>Motif.

>Sun sent in a PAR for a standard based on OpenLook.

>The final decision of the SEC (Sponsor Executive Committee), the body
>charged with making a decision about the PARs, was effectively to say:
>at this time, we will not go ahead with accepting the proposals as
>POSIX projects.

>	Was the decision of the SEC wrong?

I am delighted to hear of this sensible decision.

I cannot see any need for either Open Look or Motif to be
standardised.  Both are controlled by groups who should be quite
capable of ensuring portability.  It is of course in the interests of
their respective proponents to try and make each "more standard" than
the other, but it is not in the interests of users.

Eliminating the inconvenient differences and codifying the common
ground between variants of Unix on the other hand is a worthwhile
project that if done well will be of enormous benefit to users.

-- Richard
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Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 40