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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Destiny overview document
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.142802.20132@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 14:28:02 GMT
- References: <1h4JZB#5STc8g6Z6ZRk5b8kYq98s2Jf=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <13481@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Jul23.093940.10265@digibd.com>
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- In article <1992Jul23.093940.10265@digibd.com>, rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
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- | MoOLIT is not the Motif API. Applications compiled with it, though,
- | can have the display look either OL or Motif style, as the user
- | prefers. It is immediately obvious using this feature, how much
- | better looking OL is over Motif. However, most off-the-shelf
- | applications are Motif, and you are stuck with the Motif look
- | with those.
-
- You left out the smiley in the part about OL looking better.
- Regardless of my personal preference, I have to admit there's a strong
- demand for MOTIF, to the point that site licensing becomes practical. In
- spite of Sun's "over my dead body" policy, and free sortof-OL, you
- should qualify the above paragraph as opinion, since OL vs. MOTIF is
- a reasonably close race.
-
- Like Bush vs Clinton, most users think there must be something better.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ opinion ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
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