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In article <1898@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>, wsinkees@wsinti01.info.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing) writes:
|> man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <1991Apr16.025212.5232@news.iastate.edu>, xdpq8@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
|> >|> Find some one who has gotten system 6.0.7 with their machine when they got
|> >|> it new.  It will have Hypercard 2.0.
|> 
|> >But if you make a copy of their copy, you are a software pirate...
|> 
|> Please add a smile here, or realise that this way of thinking should not be
|> encouraged.  Effectively, Hypercard is free for every legal Mac user. This
|> is not a judicial statement, but it is the fact (and the intention of Apple,
|> I think)...
|>
|> Now, warnings that you commit software piracy when you take a copy of
|> Hypercard have a similar effect.  Use your common sense!  What is the idea
|> behind Hypercard? Exactly the fact that Apple split the distribution in two: ...
|> gives a broad hint that Apple (or Claris likes Hypercard itself to be spread, 
|> but wants to let developers etc. pay for

Perhaps I should have been a little more explicit in my remarks.  There are those
people who never bought or received HyperCard in any legal manner: specifically, those
who bought their Macs before HyperCard existed.  Apple has _never_ claimed that it
was in any way legal or encouraged for these people to rip off a copy of HyperCard
by just copying it onto a disk.  They have always offered to _sell_ HyperCard to
people in that camp.  Every Apple dealer I've dealt with wants to see your
original HyperCard disk(s) before giving any upgrade, even if they do it for free.
If you already have a legal copy of HyperCard and you want to copy the latest version
from your friend instead of taking a trip all the way to your Apple dealer, then I
guess I have no problem with that, but that wasn't the case I had in mind when I
wrote my previous comments.

	--Mark