pro and hobbyist --- a distinction without merit

[John Vokey]

This distinction still irks me.  I have never had the need to compile  
any of my stacks, hypercard, metacard, or RR.  But as I have written  
thousands of them, and use them daily in my lab, I would count myself  
as a ``pro'' user, not a ``hobbyist''.  However, just because a  
DreamCard-like model fits my needs doesn't mean that I don't need the  
increasingly-many add-ons that come only with the ``pro'' version.   
Hence, if a distinction needs to be made, stick to the one RR  
sensibly chose: DreamCard for those who don't need to produce stand- 
alone apps, and RR for those who do.  The engine, add-ons, plug-ins,  
cross-platform use, etc. should otherwise be the same for both.  And  
no one needs to be disparaged in the process.

On 1-Dec-05, at 2:07 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Pondering the many posts in this thread I'm not sure I could  
> contribute
> much of value, since Chipp covered many of my own thoughts, esp.  
> re. the
> usefulness of a US presence and the need for a completely unambiguous
> differentiation between the pro and hobbyist products.

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