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@ -17,18 +17,16 @@ in source form, certainly so at the time.
Gosling once told me that NeWS had too many components from too
many other software vendors for them ever to open source it.
Unfortunately, at the time I completed writing this book,
Sun Microsystems pulled the plug on OPEN LOOK,
caving to Motif and effectively ending the "Unix UI Wars"
in return for getting a bunch of their stuff included into the
Unfortunately, right about the time I completed writing this book, Sun
Microsystems pulled the plug on OPEN LOOK, caving to using Motif as
the Unix UI instead of Open Look, and effectively ending the "Unix UI
Wars," in return for getting a bunch of their stuff included into the
Common Desktop Environment (CDE).
In the aftermath of O'Reilly's decision not to publish the book,
I made it available on CD-ROM.
You can read the original README file from the CD-ROM in the file
README-orig.txt in this directory.
We mostly sold the CD-ROM through Amazon,
We mostly sold the CD-ROM through a then-new company called Amazon,
making me one of the few hundred earliest Amazon sellers
other than major publishers.
In all we sold a few hundred copies over several years.
@ -37,14 +35,13 @@ wish that OPEN LOOK "be towed out to sea and given a decent burial"
had come true, and so I abandoned sales and put the CD-ROM up
for FTP download as an ISO image.
After several changes of server and server software, this
arrangement fell apart.
So now I am putting what's left of it up on GitHub
for anyone to pick over the remains. This was created by reading
an early CVS archive I made at the time, merged with some additional
files in a file I found on my hard drive called "olcd.tar" and
a few from one of my last remaining copies of the CD.
That's why some of the GIT log dates are from 2001 and some from 2016.
After several changes of server and server software, this arrangement
fell apart. So now I am putting what's left of it up on GitHub for
anyone to pick over the remains. This was created by reading an early
CVS archive I made at the time, merged with some additional files in a
file I found on my hard drive called "olcd.tar" and a few from one of
my last remaining copies of the CD. That's why some of the GIT log
dates are from 2001 and some from 2016.
== Caveat Lector: Some files are missing.
@ -52,10 +49,11 @@ First, I've removed all binary programs and libs, since what worked on
Linux or Solaris in the mid-1990's just isn't going to be useful today.
Ditto for the search index, which had been built for a proprietary
indexing program.
Second, this repository is cobbled together from sources as
described above, so there is no guarantee that it
is exactly the same as what was on the CD.
As well, there were a few minor revisions to the CD as we found
As well, there were half a dozen minor revisions to the CD as we found
minor glitches, so there isn't even a single set of "what was on the CD".
In 2021 I added a few subdirectories from what appears to be a copy of