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Yes, it's a throwback to a bygone era, pre-open-source. The Smalltalk vendors shot themselves in the foot this way. How can Franz not realize that they're guar
by gruseom 17y ago
Yes, it's a throwback to a bygone era, pre-open-source. The Smalltalk vendors shot themselves in the foot this way.
How can Franz not realize that they're guaranteeing their own obsolescence by stubbornly sticking to that model? The new generation of Lisp hackers cross them off the list immediately because of it. I don't get it. Perhaps they just make enough money the old way and don't care.
- hga 17y agoI seem to remember recently reading that they're looking for other ways to make money besides selling ACL per se. Looking at their web site they most prominently feature Semantic Web Technologies: http://www.franz.com/ http://www.franz.com/