Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >
> >
> > I wonder: if all of us posted to the message board there, we'd probably
> > have more "get over it, get MetaCard" messages than all the "gosh, but I
> > like HyperCard" messages. :)
>
> I think it's better to just leave them alone. Those who need a more
> full-bodied tool have already moved to the MetaCard list. Those who are
> still using only HyperCard are simply unable to afford MetaCard, or do
> not want to learn a different tool. As moderator of the HC list, I don't
> think I want to listen to all the complaints that would happen when the
> HC list gets "polluted" with info about competing products, though I
> have to admit there are many times when I am just itching to say, "but
> MetaCard does that already!" I have to bite my tongue all the time.
>
> And (not directed at you, Richard, but at the other posters): It still
> hurts me to hear people laughing about the effort to save HyperCard,
> though I gave up on it myself a long time ago. There is a love for
> HyperCard that goes beyond the tool itself; there is a spirit there that
> even the MetaCard community doesn't have. I have never met a group of
> people who are so emotionally attached to a software product -- and that
> includes me.
>While MetaCard inspires respect and awe, I do not see the
> same emotional attachment here as the HyperCard community has for
> HyperCard. I am not surprised that some people on this list do not understand.
>
> I think it is cruel to laugh at people who are grieving.
IMHO these are people who love to grieve and would do it anyway for one
reason or another: any reasonable person would've understood the fate of
Hypercard years ago and let it die with dignity or use it as it is. It
is not the attachment to Hypercard which is unreasonable but the
intensity of it.
Money doesn't seem to be the issue here since these guys imply to use
MacOS X which implies ownership of a G4 or G3 mac.
Maybe we should pity them.
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