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From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard sellout
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Date: 25 Sep 90 13:16:02 GMT
References: <1990Sep22.224859.20395@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <10388@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Sep25.054326.22994@uwasa.fi>
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In article <1990Sep25.054326.22994@uwasa.fi>, hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
writes:
> Hmm. I don't want to start flaming but where were the fighting
> mentality of yours when they stopped thinking of ftp'able
> Hypercard v2.0 ? I'm still bitter about it and don't even think
> that the press release was any better.

Whoa.  Steve and Kevin and the other HyperCard engineers didn't make the
decision to pull HC 2.0 from ftp access, and they didn't decide to make a
runtime version.  In fact, they have been remarkably candid about their
resistance to those moves.  The decision to move HC to Claris (and therefore
to restrict free access to it) was presumably made at a very high level,  
and I imagine there's little that the HC team could have done to sway Apple 
management.  

Let's just hope that their efforts do succeed in heading off a runtime-only
HC binary.  It's hard to tell whether that decision has been made yet, so
input from users and developers who don't want to deal with two HyperCards
may still be worth something.

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development
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