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From: barmar@think.uucp (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Opinions on prospective standards sought
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:19:08 GMT
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Submitted-by: barmar@think.uucp (Barry Margolin)

I think the SEC's decision was good.  First, for all of the reasons that
others have mentioned.  Second, because I'm not sure that IEEE P1003 is the
appropriate umbrella standards organization for Motif or OpenLook.  ANSI
X3H3.6 is standardizing window systems (X3H3 is the technical committee on
computer graphics) and GUIs (I think Xlib is currently on their agenda).  I
was under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that Motif and OpenLook are
intended to be portable beyond just Unix, so it would be inappropriate to
standardize them as part of POSIX.
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