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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 04:38

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In article <1993Feb10.161418.5930@netcom.com> jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
>In article <1993Feb10.083156.5298@latcs1.lat.oz.au> jacob@latcs1.lat.OZ.AU (Jacob L. Cybulski) writes:
>>In article <C1zv2w.63L@csisun.uucp>, jburnes@csisun.uucp (Jim Burnes) writes:
>>|> 
>>|> I have an idea.  Its probably already been thought of.  Why
>>|> don't we as developers come up with a POSIX/ISO/IEEE portable
>>|> class library for GUI's.  
>>|> Suggest away...
>>|> 
>>|> Jim Burnes
>>|> jburnes@compusci.com

C'mon, haven't we already learned from POSIX what a screw standards are
when they standardize things that aren't well thought-out to begin with?
It's not time to standardize GUI interfaces yet (user, programmer, or
otherwise).

>From what I am given to understand, GNU very much wants to do a GUI, however
>they think that if they do, Apple will sue. This is part of the reason for
>the FSF boycott of Apple products.

We can't develop a GUI that looks like Apple's, but we do want to write a
desktop (one which we think will be better than Apple's anyway).  This
project is waiting while the staff complete certain other projects first
(like Emacs 19).

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From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
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Subject: Re: ** Toward a Portable OO GUI Library **
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