Le 2012-03-04 à 18:40, Lachlan Deck a écrit : > Hey Alan, > > On 05/03/2012, at 9:32 AM, Alan Ward wrote: > >> Speaking for myself (and definitely not on behalf of my employer) I'm >> curious where you are coming from here? Did you have a contract that >> obligated Apple to continue to support you? What grounds to you believe you >> have for a law suit? I'm just curious. > > Yes it's a somewhat comical notion :-) > > Just to make your point/question clearer for people: the said product was > supplied for free for the last few releases. So if people were to sue for > damages, it would need to be a very strong case indeed! I'm sure Apple would > be happy to supply a full refund ;-) > > More seriously, I think the sentiment is coming from promises (or assumed > promises) that were made when, for example, the Xcode tools were dropped. The > reasoning given was to concentrate on enhancing the frameworks. Thus the > initial impression given to the community by Apple (bolstered by its funding > of tools like WOLips) was that a renewed energy was being put into WO by > Apple that people could continue to build their business apps with. And, > there was some initial promise of better community involvement in the > evolution of WO when the Apple maven repo was made available (which showed > some future versions in the works). It didn't last long though which was a > shame at the time, especially for us maven users. Hmm so, perhaps it was the > community's unwillingness to embrace maven that canned it moving forward :-)
Sure, seeing WO 5.5 at WWDC 2008 and on ADC made us think that it would continue, but in May 2009, something changed at Apple, and we don't know what and why. But anyway, that was almost 3 years. 3 years of trying to show to Apple that we have a community, we had surveys, wocommunity.org, etc. In fact, I think the surveys might have been negative instead of positive. In November, I went to a job interview, and the guy was asking what WebObject is, and when I told him that the community is 800 people outside Apple, he almost laughed at me… _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
