Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!jkc
From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard sellout
Message-ID: <45126@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 90 16:16:47 GMT
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In article <24691@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu
(Jim Matthews) writes:

> 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's right.  Please just tell us what you think about the decision, and
we'll do our best to present your views to the right folks.  We've already
sent a truckload of postings on their way down the forwarding chain.

In the meantime, I'm sure it's best if Steve, Martin, and I leave our
personal feelings out of the public discussion.

Kevin Calhoun
Lead Engineer, HyperCard 2.0
Present Company Notwithstanding