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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard sellout
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Date: 25 Sep 90 21:32:40 GMT
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In article <10388@goofy.Apple.COM> stm@apple.com (Steve Maller) writes:
>In article <1990Sep22.224859.20395@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> 
>ftdkl@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (LaSota Daniel K) writes:
>> The mood here in Fairbanks amongst HyperCard developers is generally
>> depressive.  Its true that we don't know the whole story about the new
>> distribution of HyperCard but we do have a real sick feeling about it.
>
>Don't worry too much yet. We here on the engineering team haven't yet 
>heard the fat lady sing. And if the old broad sings the _wrong_ tune, I 
>personally will strangle her. We are fighting for what we all know is
>the Right Thing...
>
>Steve Maller
>HyperCard Engineering Team
>Apple Computer

What I think the right thing to do is to make sure everyone gets a HyperCard
version which can read, write, create -- just like in the past, and just like
a pencil. Low cost, functional tool. A run time version is yesterdays
marketing ideas today, very backwards. HyperCard is very close to the tool
for doing hyperInfo because anyone can use it and change it. In terms of
selling more hardware for Apple -- I do think they make more money from
Hardware than from Software -- this makes sense, in terms of Claris, they
would like to skim the loot. This is not a user-friendly happening from
Apple. Just a little vision would be nice. Maybe Apple could hire Stallman
from GNU for a little consulting.

I was just at the MacAcademy at Berkeley this weekend. Speaker after speaker
said that the power of HyperCard was that the user is in control. Run-time
versions take away that control. 

This is not directed at Steve Maller, it is directed at the Soda salesman.

Let's send all our empty pepsi cans to Apple in protest.

HyperCard was supposed to make the Memex come true.

--Thom Gillespie