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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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- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 40
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