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From: joseph@cooper.cooper.EDU (Joe Giannuzzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard Authoring...The Brouhaha
Message-ID: <2953@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 90 18:28:12 GMT
References: <45057@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: The Cooper Union (NY, NY)
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in article <45057@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew) says:
> 
>>2) Sounds like we get HC 2.0 with full execution functionality but with
>>   scripting hidden. Analogy, this sounds like shipping MacWrite II, but 
>>   with only a teachtext interface as default
> 
> No, I think a better analogy is microsoft word, which comes with "short
> menus" as the default. When you want more power, you simply turn on the full
> menus option.

This may be true, but you don't have to pay Microsoft in order to turn the
full menus on. That's the whole point. Everyone seems to think that a fee
will be required to do authoring based on one Apple press statement. We
could argue for days (and we have :) whether this is true or not, but until
more info becomes officially available (instead of idle speculation), we
won't know for sure exactly what the situation is (meaning is there a fee,
and if so, what is it for?)

BTW, our news machine here has been dumping articles like crazy lately, so
the whole situation might be resolved and I just don't know about it yet.
If so, I apologize for my humble ramblings.

	Joseph -> joseph@cooper.cooper.edu OR cmcl2!cooper!joseph

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