Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Summary of AT&T Open Look Product Overview Message-ID: <52855@sun.uucp> Date: 11 May 88 17:51:44 GMT References:<8805110100.AA06996@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 24 > It seems to me that when AT&T uses "OPEN LOOK GUI" they mean > the look and behaviour (the parts of which not invented at AT&T, they have > licensed from Xerox) Credit where credit is due: most of the parts of Open Look not invented at Xerox were invented at Sun. AT&T, among others, contributed to the Open Look interface, but it was primarily developed here. > and not a particular implementation. True. I think the announcement mentioned two implementations: one based on Xt (which may very well have its own window manager; they may have left that out of the description just to simplify the description) being done by AT&T, and one based on NeWS being done at Sun. There may well be other implementations as well; conceivably, some could be built atop windowing platforms other than X11 or NeWS. > So the above statement seems to say to me, that they are willing to license > the look and behaviour, to be implemented any way the licensee sees fit. > We'll see... Actually, I think what will be licensed is the trademark; as I understand it, you could implement Open Look without a license, you just couldn't call it "OPEN LOOK(TM)".