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Yeah but if you're a company the price of something is completely different. Maybe that server needs really excellent realtime performance for some really speci

by gaze 11y ago

Yeah but if you're a company the price of something is completely different. Maybe that server needs really excellent realtime performance for some really specific business need (finance?) I just don't understand how 500 bucks is a hobbyist price for a piece of software.

lispm 11y ago
It seems that for this particular piece of software, there is no cheaper way to produce it. It's a compromise of pricing a product to keep it attractive and being able to do sustained business from the UK, where a team of developers is more expensive that in some other parts of the world. $500 is affordable for a lot of people. An iPhone 6 costs more. A vintage Symbolics Lisp Machine just was sold for $5150, more than ten times compared to a hobbyist LispWorks license.