As Andy Hertzfeld tells the story on his Folklore.org site, “When Donn found out that MacBasic had been canceled, he was heartbroken. His manager told him, ‘It’s been put on hold indefinitely,’ and instructed him to destroy the source code and all copies, but refused to answer Donn’s questions about what was going on. Later that day Donn went for a wild ride on his motorcycle and crashed it, returning home scraped up but with no real damage, except to his already battered ego.”
