Re: Asimov pirates AppleWorks 5, kills AppleWorks 5.2/6.0!

[tws <adoyson@nccn.net>]

The FIRST thing I thought of when I saw the original post was:  BAIT!  I've been
reading this group the last couple of days....A few people got the hook stuck in
their cheek.



Paul Francis Gilbert wrote:

> a2mg@aol.com (A2MG) writes:
>
> >You are both going way off the deep end on this. First of all, Scantron has
> >nothing to do with this. The people we consulted about updating AppleWorks was
> >the owner, Apple Computer (this on the tails of the ClarisWorks renaming). We
> >probably would have talked to Quality, too, but it never got that far. Quality
> >may have their own plans for AppleWorks, such as keeping it going as it is, or
> >alternatively, (wild guess) letting someone like Joe Kohn handle it, as many
> >other companies have. That would be fine with us, too.
>
> >Boy, if I'd known you were such a bunch of ranters, I wouldn't have said
> >anything...
>
> >Bev
>
> Well, you should understand that when one puts a baited hook into a river,
> one expects to get a fish. Likewise, if one posts a flamebait article, one
> would expect to get some flames. That is, after all, the tried and true
> method that Nutball has been using for years. ;-)
>
> Seriously though, the original article didn't, after all, include any facts,
> just a single user's appart diherea against Asimov for nebulously, on it's
> own, having killed a new Appleworks release without bothering to include
> little things like evidence, reasons, and why a single web site (who has
> taken off the software in question at the request authors just like it
> said it would) could so damage a companies decision on whether to create a
> new Appleworks version.
>
> We're usually a friendly group. No, really. ;-). It's just that we also enjoy
> a good flame (so long as it doesn't get out of hand), so if you post
> flamebait, you'd better not be afraid of getting burnt. ;-)
>
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