Roy Turner <umcs.maine.edu at rmt> writes:

> erik> | I wish that we *could* buy the full product for Linux.  Maybe if enough of us
> erik> | use the free version and request a (commercial) full version be made
> erik> | available...
> erik> 
> erik>   well, you _can_ buy the support deal for Linux.  it's a lot cheaper than
> erik>   the full license fee the first year if you remain within the 25 hours of
> erik>   support that you buy, but it costs the same next year, too.  a client of
> erik>   mine is going to purchase one or more such support agreements until we
> erik>   (hopefully) can purchase the real thing somewhere down the line.  not
> erik>   only does purchasing a support contact land you support and fixes, maybe
> erik>   also "new features" from the standard, but you show good support for the
> erik>   decision to make ACL available to the Linux world.
> 
> But there's the problem.  I'm not about to move all our code, only some of
> which is written in Lisp, from Sun to Linux until I know that the Linux
> version of ACL will be a full product, not only with support (which I don't
> use very much at all) but with the same upgrade path as the Unix version.  So
> I'm not going to invest the money or (especially) the time, come to rely on
> the Linux version, only to find later that it is becoming increasingly
> out-of-date and possibly unsupported.  If they offer the product, then it
> makes sense, but not before, at least not to me.
> 

Sounds like a catch-22 situation.

I'll be happy with a good student version for $99 at the campus
bookstore.  The good performance of Allegro is a very good reason
to prefer it to other free lisps. 

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                                        myriam