Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!wsinti01!wsinkees From: wsinkees@wsinti01.info.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Hypercard2 Message-ID: <1898@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Date: 17 Apr 91 10:27:36 GMT References: <1991Apr16.025212.5232@news.iastate.edu> <72305@brunix.UUCP> Sender: news@svin02.info.win.tue.nl Reply-To: wsinkees@info.win.tue.nl Lines: 38 man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) writes: >In article <1991Apr16.025212.5232@news.iastate.edu>, xdpq8@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: >|> Find some one who has gotten system 6.0.7 with their machine when they got >|> it new. It will have Hypercard 2.0. >But if you make a copy of their copy, you are a software pirate. If you can >convince them to give you their unopened HyperCard box, then that's a different >matter. You can get _any_ program for free (or anything else for that matter) >if you're willing to steal it! Please add a smile here, or realise that this way of thinking should not be encouraged. Effectively, Hypercard is free for every legal Mac user. This is not a judicial statement, but it is the fact (and the intention of Apple, I think). The only effect of "warnings" like this is that they encourage pirating in the end. Just like all the ridiculous safety warnings you see on (mostly Amrican) products to free the manufacturer of possible lawsuits. The effect is that you don't take them serious anymore, including the warnings that *are* important.. Now, warnings that you commit software piracy when you take a copy of Hypercard have a similar effect. Use your common sense! What is the idea behind Hypercard? Exactly the fact that Apple split the distribution in two: a stripped (but fully functional) version with something that only very vaguely remembers to a manual for nothing and a box with three fat manuals, stacks, etc., etc. for $45, gives a broad hint that Apple (or Claris likes Hypercard itself to be spread, but wants to let developers etc. pay for the extra things they need. Please Americans, don't let yourself get mad with your mad law system! -- Kees Huizing - Eindhoven Univ of Techn - Dept Math & Comp Sc - The Netherlands e-mail: wsinkees@win.tue.nl Phone: +31-40-474120 Fax: +31-40-436685