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From: rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard MS-DOS clones
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Date: 24 Jan 89 00:59:37 GMT
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What have folks heard about hypercard clones running under MS-DOS(or
OS/2)?

I've heard several rumors:
 1) That Microsoft was planning to market a compatible product, but was 
    stopped by the infamous lawsuit from going through with their plans.
 2) That several other MS-DOS pompatible cle clones are in the works and 
    will be on the market soon (I guess the strategy is to overwhelm
    Apple's attorney's by sheer force of numbers.
    

In the Atkinson interview in Goodman's book, I seem to remember reading    
that the Hypercard file formats were going to be made public-even if this
encouraged clones.  Has this ever been done?  What portions of Hypercard 
does Apple regard as particularly proprietary?

I would be very interested in anything anyone knows about this.

Note: The above opinions are mine alone and not those of my 
consulting client, Sun Microsystems.