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From: kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ftp.apple.com and Hypercard 2.1
Message-ID: <167@eclectic.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 13:50:12 GMT
References: <53004@apple.Apple.COM> <43412@netnews.upenn.edu> <7513@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
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In article <7513@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson) writes:
>In article <43412@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes:
>>Will ftp.apple.com have version 2.1 of Hypercard?  The 800K disks don't seem
>>to.  And the compatability checker claims that 2.0 won't work under System 7.
>
>[FLAME ON!]
>So much for HyperCard being "System Software"!  There are so many things being
>distributed via HyperCard that it is really ridiculous that it is not as freely
>available as the System.  I don't even care if all the user groups get is the
>stripped-down version; we should at least be able to read the stacks which come
>with System 7!  If Claris is going to be so stingy with it, turning HyperCard
>over to them was a really *big* mistake.
>[FLAME OFF]


Yo!  Chill, buddy.  In case you didn't know things change.  Claris is charging
something like $50 for the upgrade kits and it's part of the PUKs for $99.
If neither of these suit your taste, maybe you better reconsider why
on earth, you're using a Macintosh instead of the cheapest 286 clone you
can get your hands on.  You decided you didn't want to pay for System 7.0.
Fine.  You got it from ftp/compuserve/AOL/etc.  Now you're whining that
you didn't get Hypercard for free.  Why not bitch and moan that you didn't
get MacWrite and MacPaint free as well?  After all, those used to be
System Software as well and lots of people distribute files in
MacWrite format...

Geeze.  You'd think people have better things to do than continually
whine at everything in life.  I hope you're at least getting paid
for whining...

Ken

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