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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Xerox 1108 update
Message-ID: <5410@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 89 00:30:21 GMT
References: <211100005@mirror>
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <211100005@mirror> miken@mirror.TMC.COM writes:


>The ultimate decision was based on the recipient organizations'  (two fine
>universities) ability and commitment to support the equipment.  
>There were also other mitigating factors such as the recipients' ability
>to quickly remove the equipment. 

I must say that it is precisely "offers" such as these that make me
think all the more highly of Stallman, or of Taiichi Yuasa and Masama
Hagiya, the authors of Kyoto Common Lisp. We could not come up with the
ludicrous license fees that Xerox demanded, and if it weren't for those
other people I wouldn't be able to get any work done.