Hypercard: the missing link to the web

François Chaplais francois.chaplais at mines-paristech.fr
Thu May 31 15:38:14 EDT 2012


You had to pay Apple for the development version (v.s. player) of Hypercard. I think this started with version 2.
Le 31 mai 2012 à 21:08, Bob Sneidar a écrit :

> TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Even Hypercard was not free. We paid for it when we paid for the Mac it was installed on. People who want things to always be free need to also consider the term "freeloader". Someone somewhere pays for the "free" thing. 
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> Even if Apple gave away Hypercard to people who bought a mac without it, Apple would still be paying for it. In the case of all those other things, the taxpayer is paying for it, or else the company that hired him is paying for it, and actually he is likely himself paying for it because he is probably getting paid less considering he is getting paid in benefits instead of salary. 
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> I am always very wary when people offer me something for free. Either they are trying to sell me something else later, or they are performing a social experiment. 
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> Bob
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