What a bias. This cost to the industry is a cooresponding savings to the consumer. Now if the argument is that by killing the little shops, people get less products to choose from and therefore a less rich feature set, we might have a different story.
I was on the Motif team at OSF (I can't bring myself to call it The Open Group). I agree OSF was the Cathedral. I bet you are also right that KDE and Gnome are better than Motif in a shorter amount of time. Be careful though about how you attribute this. And also be careful about the value of this distinction.
Both Gnome and KDE were able to leverage the design work that went into Motif and the other widget sets that came before them. Motif was better than Athena for the same reason. Most of the hard work goes into the design.
As for the value - When Motif was around and strong, it was clear to Unix developers what widget set and style to use. Working in industry now, I never hear about Gnome or KDE. They may be better, but they are irrelevant to my company.
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What a bias. This cost to the industry is a cooresponding savings to the consumer. Now if the argument is that by killing the little shops, people get less products to choose from and therefore a less rich feature set, we might have a different story.
My intention was not to imply code use, but only idea use.
Both Gnome and KDE were able to leverage the design work that went into Motif and the other widget sets that came before them. Motif was better than Athena for the same reason. Most of the hard work goes into the design.
As for the value - When Motif was around and strong, it was clear to Unix developers what widget set and style to use. Working in industry now, I never hear about Gnome or KDE. They may be better, but they are irrelevant to my company.