Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ? Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 17:52:28 GMT References: <76870@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <15521@well.UUCP> <1504@ole.UUCP> <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan17.033134.4139@uncecs.edu> <1752@hjuxa.UUCP> <2716@bacchus.dec.com> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com's message of 9 Feb 90 19:36:36 GMT In article <2716@bacchus.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes: You may ask, why aren't their standards in this area? The answer is there will be soon. Too soon. Standards should arise by popular acclaim and widespread adoption, not by pronouncement. Too many issues are not yet fully understood, and premature standards stifle real progress. Worse, too many standards are being declared for political and marketing reasons, not technical. Troubling times, these. Yes, end users need to be able to use their computers conveniently, and their computers need to be able to talk to each other. And yes, we've seen lots of progress because lots of very talented people have been working very hard on this stuff. But that's no reason to declare The Final Word on Standards for The Rest of History already. At least let the technology shake down a little first.