Re: AppleWorks GS 2.0 GONE ?

[niteeyes@mary.iia.org (Neal Pitts)]

I don't believe there is any need for flier quote followups. :(

Yesterday morning, I called Quality Computers to try and confirm this 
rumor.  The operator I talked with confirmed that indeed, AppleWorks GS 
2.0 had been cancelled. :(

After a moment of shock, I asked if there were any plans for a word 
processor, and he said he did not know.  I also asked if Quality 
Computers would be willing to give the source code to someone else, and 
he told me that they could not, because there was no source code!  
Apparently, the reason the project was cancelled was because Claris 
failed to hand over the original source code, meaning that the 
programmers had to start AWGS from scratch, believing they would get the 
source code sooner or later I guess.  After a long period of time, Claris 
still didn't give them the source code, predictably putting back their 
programmers 3-6 months, and Quality predicted that half the people that owned
GS machines now would not own them in that time, forcing them to cut the 
project in order to save the company the losses it might incurr.  
Assuming this story is accurate (my words retelling the story told to 
me), then phooey on Claris. :|  It's almost as though some omnipresent 
force is trying to make people give up their Apple IIs.

So, anyone have any rumors about some WPs, spreadsheet, database, and 
page layout programs? :)

NCP

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