From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community References: <3208226254834485@naggum.net> <867kvke4iz.fsf@gondolin.local.net> <3208254606019619@naggum.net> <1f4c5c5c.0108311044.2399e124@posting.google.com> <1f4c5c5c.0108312034.1b1e140a@posting.google.com> <1f4c5c5c.0109011022.72a56a2b@posting.google.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3208367187686271@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 21:06:28 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 999378388 193.90.207.215 (Sat, 01 Sep 2001 23:06:28 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 23:06:28 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:15358 * Carl Shapiro -> Erann Gat > If you are genuinely worried about the long term viability of a software > supplier, what is keeping you from entering into a source code escrow > agreement for the products your business depends on? Why, that would clearly make it impossible to continue to rant and rave about all the problems of using Common Lisp. He is not genuinely worried at all. Like so many others who feel they have been mistreated and betrayed, they really, really want to destroy what they think mistreated and betrayed them. Normal people get over such experiences and just move on to what they _really_ want. Those who had what they really wanted thwarted by mistreatment or betrayal seem to have a problem finding something else to really want. This is a personal tragedy and should not have any bearing on programming languages or their communities, but for Common Lisp, such things do seem to affect us. ///