HP van BraamThis is a fascinating time-capsule read about #motif #unix and the early #linux times. It is maybe a little #retrocomputing but not entirely.
https://www.ist.co.uk/motif/interviews/Motif6B/motif_0400.html
"Motif is as alive and well as it ever was, but the direction Motif is taking is considerably more silent than the Linux community. The problem here is whenever a piece of public software is released for Qt or GTK+, the backers of these toolkits make sure that everyone knows about it, in order to further their own toolkit and reputations. There seems to be a weekly announcement on slashdot that program X now has a GTK+ binding, for example."
"However, most large-scale commercial companies don't like bandying their names about in public, due to their proprietary nature. When the product with which I am most closely associated (X-Designer, the Motif GUI builder) is sold into some large organization in multiple copies, absolutely no press announcement is made of the fact."
The lack of press is proof of how good we're doing, ACTUALLY.
Thanks for asking.
"The essential nature of commercial software is anonymity. As commercial engineers, we don't plug our own names or reputations with the software that we sell. There's nothing in X-Designer or the manual sets to say who wrote it."
We're HUMBLE you see. Just little beavers working away on our software, quietly.
HUMBLY
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