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I'm not sure what your point is? Dead is dead, even if it's just been left to die instead of being enhanced or re-released. Re. not requiring a tithe to Apple,

• mikelevins 10y ago
  Well, but you initially said that HyperCard "had to die", presumably because it was user-programmable. You seem to be implying that Apple had a conscious policy of opposing user programming. That definitely was not the case at the time HyperCard was being developed. I know because I was there. I even worked on the HyperCard team for a while. HyperCard's troubles had nothing to do with an Apple policy against user programmability, and everything to do with the fact that management couldn't figure out how to make it into a product that paid for itself. If you want to argue that Apple has a policy against user programming now, well, maybe they do. I don't know. The last time I worked there was in the 1990s. But they didn't have any such policy when HyperCard was being shipped.