Re: Hypercard license Infringement !!

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From: Gail Zacharias
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 07:23

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>They've actually been doing this for a while.  They make a product (for PCs,
>last I knew) called "ZoomRacks", which has a few similarities to HyperCard,
>notably a "card" metaphor and some scripting capabilities.

Sounds to me like HyperZoom's just trying to protect the look and feel of
their product.  I hear somebody's been workin' hard to establish a legal
precedent for that sort of thing.

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From: gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard license Infringement !!
Keywords: justice, poetic
Message-ID: <210@spt.entity.com>
Date: 22 Sep 89 07:23:32 GMT
References: <Hyperzoom> <zoomrect> <3710@unix.SRI.COM> <1465@intercon.com>
Reply-To: gz@entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Organization: Hacks 'R' Us, Cambridge, MA
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