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Re: Pushpin patented?

#99
From: Tom LaStrange
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:05
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In article <ABRAHAM.92Apr15220343@galilei.iesd.auc.dk>, abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:
|> 
|> >>>>> On 14 Apr 92 03:40:32 GMT, nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) said:
|> 
|> Kee> However OL is certainly not unique in having multiple toolkits:
|> 
|> Kee> 		Motif		Open Look
|> [...]
|> Kee> OLIT				X
|> (should get Motif GUI support soon)
|> 
|> [...]
|> Kee> Solbourne's OI	X		X
|> 
|> No, but try asking e.g. Solbourne what they feel about playing catch up
|> to OSF/Motif with regard to the Motif GUI, compared to being ahead of
|> the Sun toolkits in some areas with regard to OPEN LOOK compliance.

Since you asked...   It's a royal pain in the butt.

|> The Motif GUI seems merely to be a description of how the current version of
|> OSF/Motif looks and feels.

Right.

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Tom LaStrange        toml@Solbourne.COM
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