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Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)

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From: dks
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 15:11
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In article <1992Apr8.152837.2483@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
>In article <19738@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr1.210152.14212@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> bjag@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bharathi Jagadeesh) writes:
>>--
>>--While we're bashing Microsoft, I thought I'd throw in a few bashes about
>>--Claris.
>>
>>For my 2 cents, I think it's pretty piss poor that MacDraw Pro doesn't
>>support Publish and Subscribe. Was it a secret or something? Even the
>>bug-droids at DeltaPoint managed to include P&S in DeltaGraph Pro, so
>>I don't see why Claris had such difficulty.
>
>Because they had frozen the feature set for MacDraw Pro before
>they could include any of the System 7.0 features. 


Is this supposed to be an excuse, an explanation, or a definition
of the problem?


Curious,
Dhanesh
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Subject: Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)
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