On 05/03/2012, at 9:40 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: > 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 :-)
What are you trying to say? Maven killed WebObjects? Why am I not surprised. :) > > cheers, > Lachlan Deck > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/qdolan%40gmail.com > > This email sent to qdo...@gmail.com
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