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Subject: Re: Hypercard 2.0
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Date: 11 Sep 90 16:32:00 GMT
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Has everyone forgotten that HyperCard _is_ a commercial software product,
and not system software?  System code has been released through online
channels in the past, like Compu$erve, but this is something people pay money
for.  I don't see Claris publishing new versions of MacWrite and MacPaint
electronically, or any software pubisher for that matter.  Just because HC
is bundled with each new Mac doesn't mean everyone is retroactively entitled 
to it.                                   

What Apple _could_ do is release an upgrade kit that somehow transforms
HC 1.x into 2.0.  That way people who already own HC and are entitled to
the upgrade can get it.   BTW, will the 1.x->2.0 upgrade be free at Apple
dealers if we bring in our disks?  Something makes me feel the answer is
no...hmmmmm...

Louis Koziarz
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
koziarz@uiuc.edu