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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: MacUser Rumor
Message-ID: <36400@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 89 17:29:01 GMT
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bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>
[stuff about developers deleted]

>If Apple really wanted to deep-six the
>// they wouldn't have hired Lyons and the Beagle Bros. people. 
>
>att!oucsace!bchurch

I'm sure Dave will appreciate the compliment (he probably won't see it for a
day or two; he's out of state on personal business), but Apple has not hired
"the Beagle Bros. people."  Claris contracted with them for AppleWorks 3.0.

I know it's hard for some of you to believe, but Claris was created for a
reason.  Apple does *not* give them technical or marketing direction, nor is
Apple involved in their day-to-day decisions or product planning.  We help them
through Developer Services as we would any other developer, but they are two
separate entities.  Claris was spun off just for this reason; it is not an
"acquired" company like Network Innovations (CL/1) where Apple wants the people
and products in the company.  Just the opposite.


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