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- From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
- Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today &
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153209.10017@news.duc.auburn.edu>
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- Organization: Auburn University Engineering
- References: <1jl02gINN3vh@armory.centerline.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:32:09 GMT
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- In article 1jl02gINN3vh@armory.centerline.com, matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau) writes:
- >In <1jkuabINNn83@shelley.u.washington.edu> sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
- >
- >> A couple of Months ago an article appeared in Open
- >>Systems Today claiming that Sun Users Preferred Motif.
- >>The article went on to say that 78% of installations
- >>polled had Motif running on at least one machine.
- >
- >Of course, this is a completely meaningless figure. So 78% of sites had
- >Motif running on at least one machine? So what? How many of those sites
- >had OPEN LOOK running on at least one machine, or SunView running on at
- >least one machine, or MS Windows running on at least one machine?
-
- So if I am running olvwm (openlook), with mathcad (motif), softpc
- (athena widgets) running MS windows, Liken (mac finder), and fileview
- (sunview... this was a hard one to think of) then how do I get counted?
-
- These statistics don't mean anything. IMHO a better line of questioning
- should go:
- 1. What window manager do you use? (should this be further
- restricted to legal copies only? :-)
- 2. How many applications do you run in OpenLook mode? Motif?
- Athena? Other?
-
- The answers to question 2 would prove interesting, but they would all
- still be mostly meaningless.
-
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