Re: Did Claris buy TimeOut QuickSpell from Beagle Bros?

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Dec 29, 8:25 pm, applework...@yahoo.com wrote:
> My understanding was that when Quality Computers was sold, they gave
> the rights to all of the TimeOut programs back to the Beagle Bros
> programmers.  Many of them were eventually released to the public, but
> QuickSpell and Thesaurus (by Alan Bird) were not. Word was that the
> licensing of the Random House dictionaries prevented this.  Of course,
> if you own QuickSpell, the AppleWorks dictionaries work just fine with
> it.

Alan Bird, and indeed all the TimeOut authors, have graciously given
the Beagle Bros Software Repository (http://beagle.applearchives.com/
the_software/) permission to distribute all of the TimeOut titles,
this year. I know this because I was the fellow who contacted everyone
and got the permission.

Why the site hasn't been updated to reflect this is unknown to me, but
I'm sure it will be soon.

-Warr