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- From: db74+@andrew.cmu.edu (Derrick J. Brashear)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
- Message-ID: <4fATj8K00VIGA4xUpv@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 06:26:48 GMT
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- Organization: Sophomore, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.sun.hardware: 17-Dec-92 Re: Sun's GUI and
- OS mistak.. David R. Linn@vuse.vande (1432)
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- > >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.
-
- > 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?"
- I think Motif sucks. I'll use OPEN LOOK any day before Motif. I prefer
- olwm and olvwm to mwm ... and if I couldn't run OPEN LOOK, I'd be using
- twm/tvtwm.
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- -D
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