Re: Abandonware???
Re: Abandonware???
- Subject: Re: Abandonware???
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:55:02 -0400
> Le 2015-10-02 à 18:00, Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden> a écrit :
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> Apple silently killed WebObjects and abandoned it's users roughly a decade ago (in a somewhat less-than-honest manner (Floop-de-diddity-doo You, Apple)).
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> But the community marches on. I’m constantly impressed by how this community survives and keeps what's essentially a dead product the best IDE/web-framework combination available. But at the same time, it’s kind of triste. We’ll never get new users. No one will use a dead framework. I hesitate to recommend it myself.
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> We really need a future destination. I’ve found a future for my data in Cayenne (I’ve converted most of my WO/EOF projects to use Cayenne instead of EOF and it’s awesome) but I haven’t found any web frameworks that can even begin to compare to WO. And I’ve looked hard.
You know, now that we have a direct flight between Iceland and Montreal, your conversion to Cayenne would be a great presentation about WOWODC 2016. :-)
> - hugi
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>> On 2. okt. 2015, at 21:01, Alan Ward <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I think Apple has abandoned WebObjects outside of Apple but not inside. Just my personal opinion
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>> Alan
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>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Paul Yu <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> I was reading this Wikipedia article.
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>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
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>>> Would the list agree that WebObjects is now abandonware?
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>>> "Definitions of "abandoned" vary, but in general it is like any item that is abandoned - it is ignored by the owner, and as such product support and possibly copyright enforcement are also "abandoned". It can refer to a product that is no longer available for legal purchase, over the age where the product creator feels an obligation to continue to support it, or where operating systems or hardwareplatforms have evolved to such a degree that the creator feels continued support cannot be financially justified."
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