Apples actual response to the Flash issue

[Randall Lee Reetz]

Adobe didn't conceive postscript, photshop, illustrator, flash, etc.  Mathematica isn't derivative.  Wolfram (for all I rail on his philosophy) is one of the last remaining computer scientists.  I think there is something about the act of writing software the way we've been doing it that either strips the science out of us or keeps the scientists away.  Wolfram is an interesting guy.  His mathematica is like most of this first wave software simply a digital "analog" of a tool we did manually before.  Yet at the same time, he actively promotes the idea of properties and tools unique to computation (his "new" kind of science).  Anyway, this discussion was about steve jobs when I think it should be about adobe's all to familiar entrenchment approach to "innovation".  This, once the disappointment and anger wears off is what has driven steve jobs into such unpopular and dangerous a stance.  Like all tertiary species, runrev can only eat the debris that falls to the ocean floor.  When xtalk was abandoned by apple, that was the day the music really died. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:36 AM
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

LOL,

I don't spend much time on this list anymore.

The only reason I'm even reading this thread is I, too, out of the
blue, received off-list messages regarding your incite full posts.
And, I feel humbled in the presence of the only visionary thinker in
the world with regard to software. I'm with you, Randall. I think we
should pile up and burn all these pretender and derivative programs,
like Photosop, Mathematica and Xcode-- hell, I could probably write
any of these simplistic mind-numbing tools in a weekend with Rev (but
only if I wish to waste valuable time which I could be pontificating
the ininess, or lack thereof, of my navel).

I suspect that like myself, you too believe Rev is the gateway to this
newer, richer class of software where the computer ceases to be "a
typewriter" and finally "knows who you are" and that is why you
continue to post here in the use-revolution list and not on some
politicorum. (great word-- just made it up, feel free to use it.)

On Sunday, May 2, 2010, Randall Lee Reetz  wrote:
> I have received numerous personal off-list emails by people who simply refuse to post after being subject on too many times to your personal attacks