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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 online
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Date: 20 Jul 90 18:34:19 GMT
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In article <34210@ut-emx.UUCP> awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <10548@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
>
>>One reason I can think of why Apple would not want to distribute
>>HyperCard 2.0 electronically and freely is that it is not freeware.
>
>When Apple released HyperCard, it defined HC as "System Software" to help
>defuse developer anger at Apple getting involved in more application
>development.  Until Apple changes its system software distribution policy,
>all Mac users are entitled to free upgrades.  As I understand it, HyperCard 2.0
>will still be available free for the duplicating, but only through dealers who
>provide access for users to do so (which I understand dealers are supposed to
>do for all system software updates.)

From what I have heard, dealers are ALLOWED to distribute system software
updates for free, but are not required to do so.  I'd be surprised if any
dealer would refuse to let you copy their disks, but who knows.  We not only
let people copy the system software onto their own disks, we also offer a
set of pre-copied System disks for the price of the four blank disks.

I had thought that Apple defined HyperCard as "core technology" software,
to distinguish it from System software, which I would think should only
refer to the operating system itself.  I can't think of any reason to call
HyperCard part of the operating system.

Can anyone at Apple comment on the official status of HyperCard, and whether
it is available free to ALL Mac owners, even those who bought their Mac
before HyperCard came out?

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