RE: iPhone Rich UI

Evan,

Your points are well taken. You seem to be looking at the whole debate while I addressed a couple points close to home. I go out of my way to encourage ILE based innovation vs. whatever. And when it comes down to large-company vs. small company, I go out of my way to encourage individual & small-company innovation, to try to level the playing field.

Nathan.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM , Evan Harris wrote:

Hi Nathan

I have to say I felt Joe's responses were reasonable in context. It was
clear from the outset that the additional functionality came from the EGL
framework.

I don't think it was anywhere near as clear from Aaaron's post that you had
to acquire the RPG XML Toolkit that he provides. (and if I have mis-spoken
that feel free to correct me). I don't recall Aaron qualifying himself as a
vendor of a toolkit or qualifying his code statements to say they required
his tool kit.

In that context Aaron asking Joe to provide the additional code was akin to
asking him to provide the code for an EXFMT while hiding his own code behind
subroutines.
The difference was only clear if you "knew" how Aaron was doing it. On the
Web-400 mailing list or even the RPG mailing list there's a better chance
that most people would have known this but less so on the midrange-l list.

Like others I've had my moments with Joe (!) but in this case I think he did
a pretty fair job.

Regards
Evan Harris