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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: What Apple is trying to tell us....
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Date: 7 Apr 90 16:38:38 GMT
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chuq@Apple.Com (Chuck Von Rospach) writes:
>jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King) writes:
>> But seriously, why did this guy get a renewed permit to mint money
>> over Hypercard 2.0 when there are many more deserving folks inside
>> Apple who could probably put the clown to shame?
>
> Why is it impossible to post anything about anything these days on USENET
> without someone flaming? Either the posting, the person posting it, or
> finding some third, unrelated issue to flame on?

It's not a flame, goodman's book is really pretty awful.  I had the
misfortune to receive it as a gift.  Why does it look like Apple is
supporting a guy who is writing

	The Complete Hypercard Book (That Sucks), 2nd Edition.

When it is likely that the new edition will be just as
counterproductive as the first edition.  Is Apple giving equal
pre-release time to the other authors who followed goodman, who wrote
much better books?  If a better author had written the "Insider's"
book, then hypercard probably would have succeeded much faster.

If there's one thing apple could do to document their system a little
bit better, maybe it's to let *good* freelance tech writers join apple
advanced development, under non-disclosure agreement, in order to
research books about future products, or dig up useful internal facts.