Dear all, please, could we close this thread and come back to more important things?
Matthias -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Interesting blog post - comments anyone? (30-Nov-2009 18:15) From: Randall Reetz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > I mean ANY form of loyalty. ALL LOYALTY is based on the perception of > belonging which is always defined by exclusivity. It is the friendly face > put on every negative trait exhibited by humans: nepitism, racism, sexism, > religious and every other form of superiority. Nobody joins a group to > assert their equality with those not of the group. Though we are often > fooled, cool-aid is cool-aid, no matter how long it has been aged. A > simple commitment to truth is a much more moral (fair) alternative. That > and compassion. > > It would be instructive here to place run-rev in historical and > genealogical perspective. In 1987 apple introduced a product based on the > genius of smalltalk that it called hypercard. A few years later, when > apple failed to keep hypercard modern, supercard brought color to the xtalk > family. When supercard ignored the other platforms (windows and unix), > metacard came to the rescue. What back-room finagleing prompted the > metacard people to change their name to "run time revolution" the single > most awkward product name in the history of product names, god only knows. > But here we are. And it is good to remember that the real genius of the > entire lineage of programming tools was based upon the insights of two men, > alan kay (smalltalk, objects and message passing) and bill atkinson (the > simplification of the object stack to a few predefined layers, and a > wysiwyg interface). Nothing done since has been anything but standard > version, product management, and customer relations. Not to diminish the > importance of or difficulty keeping a product current and supporting > customers, but the real value of xtalk IP was handed free of charge to > everyone after apple and owes much to the work of alan kay 30 years earlier. > > > Lets keep some perspective here. If rev wants loyalty, then at the very > least they should share it with the guys who invented all of the stuff it > brags about in its sales pitches. Cause almost none of it was naively > derived at "run time revolution". > > randall_______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > > > To: [email protected] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
