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Article #818Re: Opinions on prospective standards sought
From: Ran Atkinson
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 18:24
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 18:24
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Submitted-by: randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
I agree with what Henry Spencer said in his posting.
To wit:
1) The IEEE shouldn't be in the business of rubber-stamping
vendor-specific or otherwise proprietary "standards."
2) The OpenLook & Motif proposals were political rather than technical,
being made chiefly to add another item for marketing types to use
for disinformation.
3) Not enough is known about user interface design for the area
to be standardised at this time, more experience and research
is both needed and underway. The POSIX efforts should be
focused on standardising good existing practice in well
understood areas only.
I think the SEC did the right thing.
Randall Atkinson
randall@Virginia.EDU
Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 43
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