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Minor nit to give credit where it's due. 280 North had three founders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North,_Inc.

And for what it's worth, it took a hell of a lot longer than a couple of months to build something useful. Years later and it still isn't a full port of what was available at the time in Cocoa.

I saw a talk of one of you guys... you mentioned that it took a lot of experimentation before you even considered not using plain JS. But you should also not downplay your achievement! You did a great (maybe not complete) port of Objective-C/Cocoa which was good enough to be used by a lot of people and good enough for Motorola. :)

And Apple is certainly in a better position to do such ports than you were back then: They have the full source code of every framework they developed. I am not saying it is trivial or not much work but it is doable over a couple of years... don't you think? You have certainly more internal knowledge than I do.

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