Re:Appleworks

[ericlob@cris.com (ericlob)]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>
>>So I visited the Apple page this afternoon to see what the promised big 
>>announcement was to be. It turned out to be the Imac, a web appliance/G3
>>Powermac to sell for $1300. Yawn. One thing I noticed was that there's hype
>>about a package called Appleworks for it. As I suspected, that's the new
>>name for Clarisworks since Claris got renamed. How doya like them Apples?
>
>Since they own the trademark, they can put it on whatever software they
>like...
>
>My question is...will Apple's history web site call the "real" Appleworks
>part of the line of evolution?  Or will they keep trying to distance
>themselves from the Apple II?

What I want to know, is that if they own the name & trademark, what are
the sellers (resellers?) of Apple II Appleworks going to do?

On the plus side, maybe this will get some SPA attention to the pIrAtE
versions of the program when they mistakenly think it's the Mac version.