Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!riscy.dec.com!fuel.dec.com!graham From: graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!? Message-ID: <1446@riscy.dec.com> Date: 19 Aug 89 06:34:52 GMT References: <538@ssbell.UUCP> <8908171153.AA02417@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU> <1444@riscy.dec.com> <1445@riscy.dec.com> Sender: news@riscy.dec.com Lines: 19 >>Making something 'free' does not necessarily make it more popular. >>There are other reasons why users may pick one UI over the other. ++From: kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield)++ >Scientific surveys ? BULL.... >Technical merit, ease of use, flexibility and extensibility come >to mind as well as reliability. Before you go sounding like the >marketing department, maybe you should get some real info on OPEN >LOOK from the people it was designed for, the masses. All the articles >that I have seen to date have been surveying people with a great deal >of computer literacy. The real test of a GUI is to see just how easyit >is for computer illiterates to learn and use the machine. Thanx for reminding me of the 'proper' ways to sound in here ;-) Can you educate me on some of the features that makes OPEN LOOK more flexible and easier to use....such that "the masses" and "computer illiterates" may want it? -- Christopher Graham Digital Equipment Corp (disclaimers go in here)