Re-2: Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

[runrev260805 at m-r-d.de]

Dear all,

please, could we close this thread and come back to more important things?

Matthias


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Subject: RE: Interesting blog post - comments anyone? (30-Nov-2009 18:15)
From:    Randall Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>
To:      runrev260805 at m-r-d.de

> I mean ANY form of loyalty.  ALL LOYALTY is based on the perception of 
> belonging which is always defined by exclusivity.  It is the friendly face 
> put on every negative trait exhibited by humans: nepitism, racism, sexism, 
> religious and every other form of superiority.  Nobody joins a group to 
> assert their equality with those not of the group.  Though we are often 
> fooled, cool-aid is cool-aid, no matter how long it has been aged.  A 
> simple commitment to truth is a much more moral (fair) alternative.  That 
> and compassion.
> 
> It would be instructive here to place run-rev in historical and 
> genealogical perspective.  In 1987 apple introduced a product based on the 
> genius of smalltalk that it called hypercard.  A few years later, when 
> apple failed to keep hypercard modern, supercard brought color to the xtalk 
> family.  When supercard ignored the other platforms (windows and unix), 
> metacard came to the rescue.  What back-room finagleing prompted the 
> metacard people to change their name to "run time revolution" the single 
> most awkward product name in the history of product names, god only knows.  
> But here we are.  And it is good to remember that the real genius of the 
> entire lineage of programming tools was based upon the insights of two men, 
> alan kay (smalltalk, objects and message passing) and bill atkinson (the 
> simplification of the object stack to a few predefined layers, and a 
> wysiwyg interface).  Nothing done since has been anything but standard 
> version, product management, and customer relations.  Not to diminish the 
> importance of or difficulty keeping a product current and supporting 
> customers, but the real value of xtalk IP was handed free of charge to 
> everyone after apple and owes much to the work of alan kay 30 years earlier.
> 
> 
> Lets keep some perspective here.  If rev wants loyalty, then at the very 
> least they should share it with the guys who invented all of the stuff it 
> brags about in its sales pitches.   Cause almost none of it was naively 
> derived at "run time revolution".
> 
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