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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Free vs Commercial Lisp
Date: 1998/12/27
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* 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  oh, man, that web page is _depressingly_ outdated.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