Re: AppleWorks GS 2.0 GONE ?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

niteeyes@mary.iia.org (Neal Pitts) writes:

>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.

  This is utterly untrue.

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

  yes.


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