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.
>
Right, right and right even if, by supporting the "alive xtalks" too - Supercard
and Metacard, we are fighting - for the future - in a not so bad way too... Is
n't ?
PLUS, OMO, HC or Hypersense are dead or far dead and spending time to wait about
their "ressurection" is probably not the best to do to help the xtalk commmunity
to grow ;-)
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