Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!kent From: kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!? Message-ID: <538@ssbell.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 19:36:39 GMT References: <8908171153.AA02417@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU> <1444@riscy.dec.com> <1445@riscy.dec.com> Reply-To: kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) Organization: Sterling Software, FSG-IMD, Bellevue, NE. Lines: 42 In article <1445@riscy.dec.com> graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) writes: > >>Actually (as someone who is definitely more of an OSF fan than a Unix >>International fan), I worry that, simply because the OPEN LOOK-compliant >>X11 toolkit (and maybe a window manager, I don't know for sure) *is* >>distributed for free, OPEN LOOK will win over Motif. > >Some scientific surveys have been done ...regarding the OPEN LOOK vs Motif controversy.... >So far, Motif has a wide margin lead. A good example of such survey, is the one conducted >by UNIX Today! in July ' 89. Scientific surveys ? BULL. The article that you direct the readers to states it is an informal survey. If you know of *real* scientific surveys, I'd be happy ^^^^^^^^ read them. Please post locatable references to them in this newsgroup as I am sure there are others who are interested as well... >Making something 'free' does not necessarily make it more popular. There are other >reasons why users may pick one UI over the other. 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 easy it is for computer illiterates to learn and use the machine. >BTW: The Motif binaries is only $40. >Christopher Graham >Digital Equipment Corp >Ultrix Resource Center And $1000 for the sources. I am not taking sides just yet in the WW (Window Wars) but I am tired of people spewing non-facts out for the net to take as fact. -Kent+ This is my opinion only. My mail box awaits any and all comers...