Subject: Re: Free vs Commercial Lisp From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1998/12/27 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3123736010634429@naggum.no> * Craig Brozefsky <craig@onshore.com> | On the franz web page http://www.franz.com/dload/offer.html they refer to | it as Allegro CL 5.0 Beta. The order/download form does not indicate | wether it is the beta or final that is available. oh, man, that web page is _depressingly_ outdated. | Being that David is not directly familiar with Franz's track record as | far as software quality goes, one cannot really fault him for treating | the beta as you would a beta from nearly anywhere else. I do not think | that David was trying to pull anything. I think that the Franz website | indicated to him that it was beta, and he came to a reasonable conclusion | from this information. well, I think "fear of beta" is irrational. (look, it even got us VHS.) #:Erik