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From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to torpedo Open Look
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Date: 14 Apr 89 16:10:21 GMT
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(1) Charge a large amount of money for it, say $1000.  There are enough good,
free, XWindow managers that few people will examine expensive ones.
(2) Require Byzantine licensing conditions.  It always takes us at least
three months and twenty phone calls to order software from AT&T because of
lcensing nitpicking between Stanford and AT&T.

If AT&T doesn't put the Open Look toolkit source into the public domain I predict
very few people will use it.   This is how Sun killed NeWS.