maybe they should give it away

HyperCard Forgotten, but Not Gone

IHug [Int’l HyperCard User Group] wants to see HyperCard ported to run on Mac OS X, and the incorporation of overdue features, like fully integrated color. HyperCard is still, at heart, black and white.

IHug campaigned vigorously for several years, with little luck. Their efforts culminated in a meeting with Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide marketing, who reportedly ended up asking them, “But how do we sell it?” Clearly, Schiller wasn’t convinced by iHug’s answers.

I loved HyperCard. It was easy, useful and in many cases all you needed. Even when it wasn’t it could get you a lot of the way there.

Perhaps IHug should turn Schiller’s question around, and ask why doesn’t Apple make HyperCard open source? They don’t care about it, and IHug does. If they’re willing to do it with Darwin et al, this should be an easy one.

Thanks to Frank for this one.