That could be, but as the discussion you pointed out mentioned, GWT
didn't come out until six months after the Google guys were at
Morfik's demo at the Web 2.0 conference last year. I believe that is
admissible as evidence at trial if Morfik is indeed granted the patent
they applied for.
Yeah - who knows. I'm not partial to either side, but of course it
all depends on whether Morfik actually tries to use a patent against
Google.
As a person who has owned several, that's exactly what I'm saying.
The fact that both play music, and both have either flash or mini hard
drives does not make them similar. The market seems to agree.
I love an iPod as much as the next guy (and have owned two), but they
are still similar products to other MP3 players. Sure I agree they
are better, but yes - two products with the same hardware, same
features, and competing for the same customer are as similar as it
gets. How much similar can you be? But we digress...
Are you in the Pioneers program? If you were then you would already
have access to all of this. By the way, I didn't mean to spring this
on anyone, but I checked earlier this evening on the cross-platform
issues, so a) Safari is listed as a bug, and is in the to-do list b)
OSX binary is listed as a bug and is in the to-do list, and the Linux
compatibility issue listed as "lab test", whatever that means. I
can't tell you more since I'm not on the inside.
No, because I don't want to join the pioneer's program in order to
decide whether I'm interested in the product. They should really put
up some more documentation on their website for all to see, IMO. This
is probably mute for a lot of people because they have a free trial
of the software, but it's Windows-only so I'm out of luck.
I also found this nugget:
"Employees and affiliates of Morfik Technology's competitors are not
eligible to access information or obtain materials pertaining to
Morfik's WebOS AppsBuilder software, its testing, or applying for its
testing, and disclosing and/or using such information in any way that
compromises the confidentiality of Morfik's publicly announced
information or compromises Morfik's competitive position. Violations
of these conditions will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible
under the law."
Yikes. Sounds like if I joined the program and then wrote a
Revolution-based AJAX / RAD add-on, there is a good chance Morfik
would take me to court. No way I'm going to agree to a non-compete in
order to join their pioneer program. Guess I have to pay $5k after
all =).
I agree that the vocabulary is difficult. Both they and Google throw
around the word "Compiler" in a way that is completely unfamiliar to
me, and I've written a couple (for example).
Yep. I know Morfik isn't any worse than anyone else with the buzz
words, I just universally hate them =).
Bringing all of this back to the original discussion, I would really
like to see RR establish some sort of AJAX functionality, and not with
a bunch of strap-on external puppies either. However I'm afraid that
will be a couple of years down the road first.
I would too. I actually think it's a quite doable project. Not small,
but doable. It doesn't hurt that we could live on top of the existing
Rev IDE and object properties.
So I guess we probably aren't going to agree on a lot of the Morfik
points, but that's ok. Unfortunately if I work on a Revolution
solution, it looks like we could end up in court if you help =P...
- Brian
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