NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/bit/listserv/decteil/126

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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:14:34 PDT
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From:         "W. Todd Wipke" <[e-mail]>
Subject:      Motif as a standard?
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I am disappointed that DEC is not encouraging Universities to use
MOTIF as a standard.  By not including it in the ESL, CSLG, and CONDIST,
DEC is undercutting this standard.  Having lived through a number of so-
called standards for workstations, the mascinations regarding MOTIF, is
particularly irritating.  I have been developing on MOTIF and now realize
that our programs will not necessarily run in a typical vms environment
because MOTIF is not going to be a standard default part of that environment.
     Some colleagues that are developing on the standard MIT release of
X-windows (on other hardware of unmentionable name) have had advantages that
all the documentation matches the functions and libraries, they are one or
two releases more current in X version, and they have not had to pay extra
or worry about licenses, or whether things are being included or split out
of the operating system.  There is enough turmoil resulting from hardware
changes, here is an opportunity to give people some stability by increasing
the use and availability of MOTIF, at least for Universities.  DEC, include
it in the CSLG and the CONDIST, please.

Todd Wipke
University of California
Santa Cruz
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