Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!hadron!decuac!felix!info-ultrix From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DECWindows vs X Message-ID: <60433@felix.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 13:39:33 GMT Sender: info-ultrix@felix.UUCP Reply-To: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) Organization: DEC Software Services Lines: 14 Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-Path: Reply-to: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) A few weeks before the Ultrix announcement there was an annoucenment that digital intends to license XUI -- basically the X User Interface, style guide, toolkit, etc. from the DECwindows program. To quote you... "Some commitment." What makes you uncomfortable with Digital building a powerful, easy-to-use, X11-based interface and then offering it to the industry to license -- source code, documentation, etc.? Remember, Digital is the compangy that gave TONS of source code away into the public domain with X10 and X11 development. What makes you suspicious now??? Fred