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From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CLARIS moving to the NeXT or spying for Apple?
Message-ID: <9468@claris.com>
Date: 5 Apr 89 04:23:34 GMT
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From by mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus):
> A magazine article I read recently stated that a developers group from
> CLARIS attended a NeXT-sponsored development seminar a couple of months
> ago.
> 
> If this is true, what is the reasoning for it?  Is CLARIS showing that
> it is truly independent of Apple?  I can see it now:  MacWrite for the NeXT;
> MacWrite for Windows; MacWrite for the Sun :-).
> 
> I think that this is an area where the parent company would really crack
> down...
> 
> -Michael

Obviously, I can't comment on this in any official capacity, nor reveal
any sordid details.  As such, this post has almost no real content.

Claris is currently contractually obligated not to relase software for any
non-Apple machines for some period of time after its inception or until it
goes public or something like that.  But eventually, we hope to go public.

Claris is "investigating the development possibilities of alternative
platforms" or something like that.  As far as I know, there is no active
development on anything except Macs and Apple II's.  But there's a good
chance we'll be developing for other machines once the contractual obligations
wear off and we are no longer owned by Apple.

We're not completely independent yet, but we will be someday.... :-)

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