I remember that I loved reading most of what was on Allegro's feature page. Especially AllegroCache where you put OOP data in an OOP database instead of the rou

I remember that I loved reading most of what was on Allegro's feature page. Especially AllegroCache where you put OOP data in an OOP database instead of the round peg, square hole concept involving a RDBMS & ORM that are popular. They throw in a Prolog for queries and their own little SourceForge of libraries. Kept it proprietary at a cost. It about seemed worth the money albeit I'd keep a FOSS variant of my code on CLISP or something in parallel just in case. ;) Then I saw the real anti-FOSS: royalties. They charge royalties!? In (year here) in software!? Their dependence is reminiscent of Adacore but their financial benefit on development and distribution can only be topped by Microsoft, IBM, and Apple. ;)