Wrestling with the thorny problem that the rival OSF/Motif user interface for Unix is proving much more popular than its home-grown Open Look, Unix International president Peter Cunningham said that the club may soon give aid and comfort to the opposition by endorsing the Open Software Foundation’s Motif user interface. AT&T is thought to be testing the interface running on top of System V.4, and although it has reportedly found some eccentricities connected with it, it does work. Unix International and AT&T would like to get the Foundation’s co-operation for a common applications programming interface between Motif and the AT&T/Sun Open Look product, but so far this has not been forthcoming.
