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Licensing costs were most definitely an issue. The Smallworld GIS system was written using a home grown language and VM because that was more economical than is
by aardvark179 5y ago
Licensing costs were most definitely an issue. The Smallworld GIS system was written using a home grown language and VM because that was more economical than issuing every user with a suitable Smalltalk licence (because in the early days every user was expected to potentially be writing code to analyse their data).
- igouy 5y agoWould it have made any sense for a software tool vendor to let someone buy one license and then redistribute the software tool to their customers? Magik https://sworldwatch.blogspot.com/2011/08/smallworld-technical-paper-no-5.html https://sworldwatch.blogspot.com/2011/08/smallworld-technica...