Re: Piracy and a new Appleworks

[tws <adoyson@nccn.net>]

There was to be an AWGS 2.0 program?

Do you have a copy of the list you read describing its features?  I've
never heard of the update.  Why was it canceled?  Was it programmed at all,
or just a planned update?

Mitchell Spector wrote:

> In article brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) writes...
>
> > Rubywand replied to A2MG:
> >
> >> Sure. There won't be an AppleWorks 5.2, and there won't be an Apple
> >> Works 6.0.  How's that sound? Kind of makes you feel like you were
> >> kicked in the stomach, doesn't it? Yep, me too..
> >
> > R<|  1. Who is/was planning to release an "AppleWorks 5.2"?
> > R<|  2. How, specifically, is piracy blocking the release?
> > R<|  3. Who/where/what is the pirate?
> >
> >And #4, what improvements could one make to AW 5.1 that would merit
> >constructing 5.2 or higher?  I don't feel kicked in the stomach -- I'm
> >using 4.3 and haven't seen a need to reach higher, pirated or not.
>
>     I only felt kicked in the stomach when AppleWorks GS 2.0 was
> cancelled, especially after all the hype QC made surrounding it
> _and_ that list of new features that was made public.
>
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca