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- From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:31:33 GMT
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- drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn) writes:
-
- >>We use Motif. Our lives would be so much easier if Sun got rid of olwn
- >>and supported mwm. At least Sun supports X11. They have some nice
- >>utilities such as Tooltalk but all in all, Sun's attempts to lead
- >>the open systems marketplace has really been a failure.
-
- olwm and mwm are just window managers. They have nothing to do with the
- underlying libraries that were used in the programs.
-
- >Ah, ... surveys ...
-
- >I'll publicly state that I prefer OPEN LOOK* to Motif and I know several
- >other people who also prefer OPEN LOOK to Motif. A lot of people were
- >strongarmed into using Motif by being told "that's what *everyone* is
- >going to use; you don't want to make the *wrong* choice, do you?"
-
- >What a bunch of lemmings. :-(
-
- I also prefer Open Look over Motif.
-
- Motif reminds me of Windows on the PC. Yugh.
-
-
- Richard.
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