MT RE: [HS] This is Ridiculous

I'm writing just to support Greg. 

Regards, 

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Enrique Gordillo C.


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> De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En
> nombre de Greg Gaub
> Enviado el: sábado, 01 de diciembre de 2012 12:59
> Para: [email protected]
> Asunto: Re: [HS] This is Ridiculous
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> I understand your frustration, Albert, but please lay off Chris.
> Remember, HandyShopper was always free. He made it for himself, and was
> kind enough to share. That so many people fell in love and became
> dependent on it only means Chris did a fantastic job. But he has never
> been, nor ever will be, obligated to do anything more than whatever he
> feels like doing.
> In case you didn't know, he has made all the necessary information on
> his database format available to anyone who asks. A developer who wanted
> the "HandyShopper" market could just as easily copy the HandyShopper
> interface, and use the HandyShopper database format for full backward
> compatibility, market it as HandyShopper compatible, and come up with a
> clever new name, and presumably do very well.
> Why every new developer in this market wants to start from scratch is
> beyond me, but whatever.
> 
> Anyway, while the future of HandyShopper itself is a mystery, handy
> shoppers on this list can continue to use it on their old devices, use
> the app on an emulator on their new devices, or switch to an entirely
> new app. I haven't seen an update in a little while, but last time I
> looked, AndShoBBer was doing a pretty good job of mimicing HandyShopper.
> Hopefully he'll continue to improve it.
> 
> As for the poll, so far it's pretty much a landslide in favor of opening
> up the group. I have set the poll to close at the end of the month. Come
> January 1st, 2013, we might be seeing a lot more topics on this group.
> -Greg
> 
> Albert wrote:
> 
> >Results of the poll notwithstanding we need a place to discuss how to
achieve partial if not
> the whole capability of HandyShopper on current, relevant systems!
> >
> >Most of us in this group will agree that HandyShopper is the finest
shopping program
> available, period, not to mention an excellent "TO DO" list manager.
Unfortunately, for
> whatever reason Antos has chosen not to port this capability to a relevant
OS.  Fine.  His
> choice, his right and I fully respect that.  I hold him no ill will.
However, that does not
> change the fact that it leaves the rest of us who live in the 21st century
in a lurch.
> >
> >I personally don't care if we change the rules on this group or create a
new one.  The only
> thing I really care about is I WANT HANDYSHOPPER BACK!!! AND, I WANT IT TO
> RUN ON WHATEVER DEVICE I HAVE AVAILABLE!  Since this will probably not
> happen I strongly support any and all discussion for a replacement that is
as close to the
> original as we can get.
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