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From: randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
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Subject: Re: Opinions on prospective standards sought
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Date: 24 Apr 91 18:24:43 GMT
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Submitted-by: randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)

I agree with what Henry Spencer said in his posting.

To wit:

  1) The IEEE shouldn't be in the business of rubber-stamping 
     vendor-specific or otherwise proprietary "standards."

  2) The OpenLook & Motif proposals were political rather than technical,
     being made chiefly to add another item for marketing types to use
     for disinformation.

  3) Not enough is known about user interface design for the area
     to be standardised at this time, more experience and research
     is both needed and underway.  The POSIX efforts should be
     focused on standardising good existing practice in well 
     understood areas only.

I think the SEC did the right thing.

Randall Atkinson
randall@Virginia.EDU


Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 43