Re: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple
Re: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple
- Subject: Re: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 23:04:20 +0000
- Thread-topic: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple
> Le 3 mai 2016 à 12:47, Flavio Donadio <email@hidden> a écrit :
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> Hugi,
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> That’s bad news, but it’s exactly what we expected, in a certain way. The silence and lack of updates for such a long time were telling us the truth, although we wouldn’t accept it — there had to be a final word, straight from the horse’s mouth! I guess we have it now.
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> So, they say WO is dead. We say “long live, WO!"
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> We should move on to the next step: nagging Apple to release WO/EOF as open source software! ;-)
This topic comes around every year. Multiple people asked this to Apple over the last 7 years. It won’t happen. Final.
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> Cheers,
> Flavio
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>> On 03/05/2016, at 12:19, Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi all.
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>> We probably all know that WO's been practically dead to Apple for a long time, but unfortunately Apple has refused to state so officially (at least I don't recall there being an official statement).
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>> Anyhow… In the past years I've regularly sent letters to Tim Cook, asking about the state of WO (being the naggy guy I am) and recently, I was contacted by Apple executive relations regarding my questions. The guy I spoke to called a couple of times, at first, he had absolutely no idea what WO was but the second time he called, he had obtained information and had a clear statement: "WebObjects is a discontinued product and will never be upgraded".
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>> I know this information is extremely redundant, but I still wanted to tell you since it was something of a relief. Felt a little like the police calling you to let you know that they'd found the remains of your friend that's been missing for 15 years and finally declared him dead.
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>> But of course, this changes nothing; WO is still better than ever. We just need to continue to distance Wonder from WO and move forward.
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>> Cheers,
>> - hugi
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