From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Free vs Commercial Lisp Date: 1998/12/27 Message-ID: <3123736010634429@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 426110079 References: <3681615a.2791804@news.newsguy.com> <87pv97txpt.fsf@piracy.red-bean.com> <3123708977251537@naggum.no> <87soe2qswq.fsf@piracy.red-bean.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Craig Brozefsky | 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 oh, man, that web page is _depressingly_ outdated.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