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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HAM (or whatever it's called)
Message-ID: <53453@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 18:33:49 GMT
References: <1991May29.165016.9560@sequent.com>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991May29.165016.9560@sequent.com> iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes:
>>5.  Who is writing it.
>
>Chris Derossi of Apple Computer.  One of the meanest of the Blue Meanies.
>He was also the author of Dimmer, among other things.

  We must have been at the same parade...

>------
>My comments:
>
>When an employee voluntarily??  creates a useful application, the
>company HAS to automatically stop the presses to see if it can make a
>quick buck!!  I don't mean to slam Claris, but I suppose if I had
>written the application I might think about making a few $$$.  But a
>multi-million dollar corporation could benefit from making something
>like HAM public domain.  Like Public Folder, HAM could show users how
>Claris wants to make the mac the workstation of choice.  With all of
>the GREAT new features of System 7.0 and the new PD apps that will
>surely follow, how can the PC-compatible's keep up with this kind of
>GREAT technology. %^-)
>
>Claris makes great software.  We use their products here and are very
>happy with them.  I hope Claris doesn't slow down progress by heaping
>on bureaucracy.
>

  In all fairness to Claris, they have nothing to do with this.  Neither does
Apple, really.  Chris is just looking to get the widest possible distribution
of HAM, which means going commercial.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     I have nothing to do with HAM except for the fact that Chris is my boss,
      and I should probably say nice things about him if I want to keep getting
      paid.