Hugi, you’re famous now :D

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-officially-discontinues-webobjects-2016-5


On May 3, 2016, at 4:20 PM, David LeBer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, I was surprised by that too.
> 
> Apple rarely gives definitive statements on anything, let alone a long dead 
> and forgotten product ;)
> 
> -- 
> D
> 
> On May 3, 2016 at 7:11:05 PM, Chuck Hill ([email protected]) wrote:
> 
>> I am surprised that Hugi got a clear statement from Apple. That must have 
>> taken some persistence! “Frank, this damn Hugi guy keeps bugging us every 
>> year, get rid of him!”
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2016-05-03, 4:04 PM, 
>> "[email protected] on behalf of 
>> Pascal Robert" <[email protected] 
>> on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >> Le 3 mai 2016 à 12:47, Flavio Donadio <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >> 
>> >> Hugi,
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> That’s bad news, but it’s exactly what we expected, in a certain way. The 
>> >> silence and lack of updates for such a long time were telling us the 
>> >> truth, although we wouldn’t accept it — there had to be a final word, 
>> >> straight from the horse’s mouth! I guess we have it now.
>> >> 
>> >> So, they say WO is dead. We say “long live, WO!"
>> >> 
>> >> We should move on to the next step: nagging Apple to release WO/EOF as 
>> >> open source software! ;-)
>> >
>> >This topic comes around every year. Multiple people asked this to Apple 
>> >over the last 7 years. It won’t happen. Final.
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Flavio
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >>> On 03/05/2016, at 12:19, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> 
>> >>> Hi all.
>> >>> 
>> >>> We probably all know that WO's been practically dead to Apple for a long 
>> >>> time, but unfortunately Apple has refused to state so officially (at 
>> >>> least I don't recall there being an official statement).
>> >>> 
>> >>> Anyhow… In the past years I've regularly sent letters to Tim Cook, 
>> >>> asking about the state of WO (being the naggy guy I am) and recently, I 
>> >>> was contacted by Apple executive relations regarding my questions. The 
>> >>> guy I spoke to called a couple of times, at first, he had absolutely no 
>> >>> idea what WO was but the second time he called, he had obtained 
>> >>> information and had a clear statement: "WebObjects is a discontinued 
>> >>> product and will never be upgraded".
>> >>> 
>> >>> I know this information is extremely redundant, but I still wanted to 
>> >>> tell you since it was something of a relief. Felt a little like the 
>> >>> police calling you to let you know that they'd found the remains of your 
>> >>> friend that's been missing for 15 years and finally declared him dead.
>> >>> 
>> >>> But of course, this changes nothing; WO is still better than ever. We 
>> >>> just need to continue to distance Wonder from WO and move forward.
>> >>> 
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> - hugi
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