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From: jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Profit and Ignorance
Message-ID: <4817@well.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 06:24:00 GMT
Reply-To: jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Skef Whorley writes, referring to Dick Gabriel:

> Funny that he goes on to quote a man who is profiting...

To which I responded:

>The fact that Lucid is making a profit from CL does not make it commercially
>viable...

The fact is that Lucid is *not* making a profit.  In fact, the only Lisp vendor that
is apparently making a profit is Franz Lisp Inc.

 Jeffrey M. Jacobs
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