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Article #37452Re: Toolkit decisions (was: XView v. other toolkits, advice wanted)
From: Chan Benson
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 18:12
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 18:12
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> Our group decided to use either Xview or InterViews for the main > reason is that they are entirely in public domain > and run well on most types of computers. > First, history shows that public domain packages, UNIX (early AT&T, GNU), C++ (GNU), > and X Windows win out over their possibility superior competitors > (VMS, Objective C, NeWS) because academic hackers evolve them and write > useful applications for them. Be careful with the way you use the term "Public Domain". Hell, Unix isn't even *free*, let alone public domain. To my knowledge, none of the software mentioned above is public domain. -- Chan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfcmgw!chan From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Toolkit decisions (was: XView v. other toolkits, advice wanted) Message-ID: <1210026@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> Date: 27 Feb 90 18:12:42 GMT References: <132173@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO Lines: 13