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From: mrfung@nada.kth.se (Lars-Erik Fredriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 (press release)
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.004233.25633@nada.kth.se>
Date: 26 Sep 90 00:42:33 GMT
References: <44987@apple.Apple.COM> <3920@tellab5.tellabs.com> <45145@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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C'mon Chuck,

We know you always like to break news to us but now you seem to be
throwing dust in our eyes!

you say:

> I was telling the truth for 2.0. What Claris does later may well be
> different, and as far as I can tell, they're telling the truth for that. 2.0
> is 2.0 is 2.0 -- but 2.?? is still being looked at.

what is it you really *know* 'cause if 2.0 is never shipped to anyone
it really does not matter if there is only *one* version of it! If you
*really* know something speak up and if you don't the info about 2.0
is very esotheric and I regard your argument as mere sophistic acrobatics
if it is really only discussing an interrim compiled version that will
never hit the users!

If you know something profound about this then please talk clearly
and don't just try to cover up for something you blurted out just
because you were hoping or whatever.

Too much fairypowder? When you wish upon a card! I like to express
my sympathy for the developers of Hypercard who must feel terrible
after having worked soo hard to finally get 2.0 ready and still will
have to wait for some time to hear the cheers of the amazed crowd of
people still waiting to put their hands on 2.0. 

It is not fair to them and not to us because a lot of good work could
already have been done using the final version of 2.0 and it is really
a tremendous improvement over the 1.2.5 and earlier versions!

I really hope this gets solved *quickly* or lots of goodwill will be
lost for Apple.

The only real solution if Claris wants to make a buck on it is to ship
what is ready and then make an attractive developers package with loads
of XCMD's and samplescripts and code and *good* documentation that
people would want to buy anyhow even thou they get the uncrippled
version!

mrfung has spoken!