Why OpenWindows instead of Motif ?

[J. Eric Townsend]

In article <1991Feb14.211546.21222 at ugle.unit.no> halvard at solan.unit.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:
>Does anyone know the reason why C= went for OpenWindows ?
>I mean - this is the Sun supported GUI - while Motif
>are supported by IBM,DEC,HP etc.
>Why did C= settle for OpenWindows - or maybe they didn't ??

It's simple: because Motif sucks big time.

We have Sun-2s running OpenLook and RS/6000s running Motif.  With the
exception of one of the people who paid for an RS/6000, our entire
department likes OL *much* better.

So there, nyah.

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