<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Shari,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You should have more faith and trust in OpenSource. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To begin with, many many dozens of old HyperCard stacks still run on MC... </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Then you have the great many javascript, java, PHP or C source codes on the net - many more than any commercial company can output in 20 years...</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I haven't found many that didn't work! Compare that to the many "professionaly built programs" that dont!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If you dont believe or contribute to opensource, it it not going to get better. But it will and without you!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MC is gone that way IMOHO... The engine is awesome, the GUI, well, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I dont have much positive to say about it... But it's far more inviting than RR. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">RR on the other hand is much more complete, and professional looking - it's just a bit overloaded IMOHO.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The problem is that nothing is perfect! I always thought Lotus Notes would be great to use since it's quite </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">close to XOS or even metacard (in phylosophy) but now I've tried it, Im puking all over every feature it has</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">that doesn't work correctly or does incorrectly... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">But in this perfect world, we like you rumbling Shari!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">BTW my Control Browser (and there are others!) is far beyond any you have seen in RunRev or MetaCard... </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Simpler, faster, more power and definitely no bloat!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If one or 2 persons would have helped, it would be beyond your wildest dreams with more features and less bugs than any other </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">product. You can get an "outdated" preview at </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[http://monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=100]</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Yesterday, I did something amazing: I just copied/pasted a "script editor" grouped-object from XOS into the script editor of the control browser, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and other than the save script script, it worked right off. Less bugs, more standards, more features... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You choose... You can sort the columns, collapse the window with a double click or even search all the stack items and their controls! </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Im also working on making changes to more than one item, and versioning, custom props, themes, styles, etc... and OpenSource!!!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Soon and thanks to ClipperX text-editor grouped-object you will even have html text editing and the rest... </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Additive is a quality for XOS and most of my software - I keep hearing GREAT, woah!, etc... You be the judge.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I just never get many comments, help or bug reports... Let alone investment requests or incentiveware fees! Not even a beer!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So Im not motivated to help anymore more... Too much leeching. But I do it for my own development and couldn't live without it!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As far as marketing, I can tell you that a running product will sell. A nicely designed program will sell better but not longuer.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">New features and GUI design is what sells upgrades... So I hope this works for RR and it's new users...</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Shari <gypsyware@earthlink.net></b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">>If this is all you worry about, you can rest easy. I'll continue to<br>
>be a part of the engine development team for the foreseeable future,<br>
>and though my control over the direction of the technology and<br>
>management will be greatly diminished, I have complete confidence in<br>
>the team at Runtime Revolution. They're just better managers and<br>
>marketers than I ever was ;-)<br>
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Scott,<br>
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If you learn any new marketing tricks, let us know! They say that <br>
developers often make the worst marketers, which is why it is so <br>
difficult to succeed in this business. We'd rather stay glued to the <br>
keyboard and code, than pound the pavements strutting our stuff.<br>
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Kinda reminds me of Apple/Windows. Apple had the better product, but <br>
Billy was the marketing genius, and so snatched up the majority of <br>
marketshare.<br>
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If I am understanding this, in the future, if you took the Rev <br>
engine, but replaced the stacks (Home, Help, Metacard Menubar, etc.) <br>
with the current MC stacks, it would run?<br>
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There were features I liked about Rev when I tried it, like sorting <br>
the contents of the Control Browser. There were other features that <br>
got in the way, though I truthfully don't recall what they were.<br>
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I don't have a lot of faith in Open Source carrying a product into <br>
the future as something you can rely on for years to come. I'm not <br>
aware of an open source program that has been around for at least 10 <br>
years, is stable, and of this magnitude. Since nobody makes money <br>
from open source, there is nothing to keep it alive but heart, and <br>
that usually fades with time.<br>
<br>
Sometimes new blood in a company is a positive thing. Sometimes not. <br>
I still bitch every time I use OSX, as it is so Windows-like. I <br>
miss being able to double click the title bar to collapse a window <br>
(yes I know you can get programs to do this, but before, we didn't <br>
have to). I despise having to go thru "Are you sure you want to..." <br>
dialogs every time I click a button. I miss being able to color <br>
folders, so that certain ones stand out and remind me of something.<br>
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I can only hope this change will be a GOOD thing. It wouldn't have <br>
mattered to me if Scott added a lot of features, as long as the <br>
engine was kept up to date with the computer platforms, and of course <br>
if a major change occurred in the computer world, that it would be <br>
integrated. (Such as when computers added color, and Hypercard <br>
tacked it on but never truly integrated it as they should have.)<br>
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Yes I am rambling. Where I should be off doing things that need to <br>
be done by Friday to get ready for the Shareware Industry <br>
Conference.....<br>
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Shari C<br>
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http://www.gypsyware.com<br>
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