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

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

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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