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Re: MCL Future

John Howland Writes.....

 
> BTW, If Apple is going to abandon MCL on their new machines, why not
> release MCL and its sources to the public domain so that those who are
> committed to Apple machines and PowerPC processors can provide a future
> for MCL.

Now that is the second constructive piece of discussion, among all the
complaining, I've heard.

There is precedence for such a thing from Sun Microsystems. When they
abandoned Sun Common Lisp, (which, of course was lucid) they also abandoned
a lisp-based window system call LispView. They put all the sources in the
public domain and we continue to use (and fix) that package to this day.

Scott