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From: msmiller@gonzoville.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0
Keywords: System software, Hypercard
Message-ID: <2577@east.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 16:27:37 GMT
References: <378@irst.UUCP> <44630@apple.Apple.COM>
Sender: news@east.East.Sun.COM
Reply-To: msmiller@Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
Organization: Micro Sunsystems, Inc.
Lines: 32

In article <44630@apple.Apple.COM>, jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:
|>
|>The decision has been made here not to make HyperCard 2.0 available via
|>ftp.  Neither will it be available for downloading on any of the commercial
|>online services.
|>
|>I very much regret the inconvenience this will cause many of you and the
|>delay in getting 2.0 into your hands.
|>
|>None of us who are regular readers of this newsgroup had anything to do
|>with the decision.  We're just the engineers...
|>
|>Kevin Calhoun
|>Software engineer
|>Apple Computer

I just hope your higher-ups realize the damage they're doing. It will
take years before people ever again believe a ship date for Apple
software - that is, when a date is given - which ain't even happening
now. The only thing worse than being constantly given later and later
ship dates is being given no ship dates whatsoever.

Putting HC 2.0 on public download sites probably wouldn't have helped
Apple's reputation much, but keeping it off just aggrivates an already
impatient public.

	-MSM
              
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