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From: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard 2.0 online
Message-ID: <4569.269c3bb8@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 90 12:58:32 GMT
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Better start calling Apple, if this article is true. It is 
reprinted without permission from NewsBytes from AOL 
because it sounded like everyone would have lynched me if 
I'd tried to paraphrase and gotten it wrong.

My recommendation is to keep the email coming, both on the 
Internet and on Applelink, and to call Apple and complain as 
well. I see no reasons, business or legal, why they shouldn't 
post HyperCard for FTP at least on their own system if not 
others.

-Adam


HYPERCARD NOT TO BE ONLINE

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1990 JUL 3 (NB) -- In a 
departure from its handling of some other system software 
products, Apple Computer has decided not to distribute its 
new Hypercard 2.0 online on bulletin boards or online 
services.

Contrary to a report which appeared in Newsbytes recently, 
Hypercard software will not be licensed to online systems, 
according to Cindy McCaffrey, public relations specialist at 
Apple Computer. The product will be distributed through 
users' groups and dealers only.

"We do license certain products to BBSes. However, a 
decision was made by the product manager not to license 
Hypercard to BBSes," McCaffrey tells Newsbytes. "This was 
not a legal but a business decision. There is no overall 
clear-cut policy, that we do or do not publish our system 
software online, just that we won't with this product 
(Hypercard)," she says. 
-- 
Adam C. Engst                                pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu   
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