Re: Abandonware???
Re: Abandonware???
- Subject: Re: Abandonware???
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 01:40:07 +0000
- Thread-topic: Abandonware???
No question in MY mind which it is!
On 2015-10-02, 5:17 PM, "Hugi Thordarson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>If I make it, we will. I’ll allow you to decide if that’s a promise or a
>threat :).
>
>- hugi
>
>
>> Will we have fermented shark loin for breakfast? :-)
>>
>> On 2015-10-02, 3:55 PM,
>> "webobjects-dev-bounces+chill=email@hidden on behalf of
>> Pascal Robert"
>><webobjects-dev-bounces+chill=email@hidden
>> on behalf of email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Le 2015-10-02 à 18:00, Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> 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)).
>>>>
>>>> But the community marches on. I¹m 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, it¹s
>>>>kind
>>>> of triste. We¹ll never get new users. No one will use a dead
>>>>framework.
>>>> I hesitate to recommend it myself.
>>>>
>>>> We really need a future destination. I¹ve found a future for my data
>>>>in
>>>> Cayenne (I¹ve converted most of my WO/EOF projects to use Cayenne
>>>> instead of EOF and it¹s awesome) but I haven¹t found any web
>>>>frameworks
>>>> that can even begin to compare to WO. And I¹ve 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 2. okt. 2015, at 21:01, Alan Ward <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Apple has abandoned WebObjects outside of Apple but not
>>>>> inside. Just my personal opinion
>>>>>
>>>>> Alan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Paul Yu <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was reading this Wikipedia article.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would the list agree that WebObjects is now abandonware?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "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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