🚀 go-pugleaf

>From: reti@wilson.ai.mit.edu
>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:37 -0400
>Subject: Re: SYMBOLICS LISP MACHINE 
>To: mikemac@mikemac.com, joswig@lavielle.com
>
>    Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:16 EDT
>    From: Mike McDonald <mikemac@mikemac.com>
>
>
>    >Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:40:50 +0200
>    >To: slug@ai.sri.com
>    >From: Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com>
>    >Subject: Re: SYMBOLICS LISP MACHINE
>
>    >Now Harlequin seems to be in trouble...
>    >
>    >Survival of the Lispm is more important than ever.
>
>      Unfortunately, I don't think Lispms can survive as long as they
>    depend entirely on one person. I'm not trying to pick on Reti
>    personally. It just that Genera is too big of a system for just one
>    person to give the kind of support and nurturing that it deserves.
>
>I completely agree that as a one-person company Symbolics isn't viable.
>We are trying (and have been for some time) to get the resources to
>put Symbolics back as a real company (with more employees).  When there
>is something definite to announce, you can be sure it will be announced
>here.

  There's another way to bootstrap yourself back up, other than the
traditional way of coming up with a business plan, find some investors
with capital, ... That's to be supportive of volunteers in helping you
improve and maintain the system. Maybe if Symbolics allowed and
encouraged their fans to help, maybe some of them would. Symbolics'
attitude has always seemed to be "It's my ball and none of the rest of
you can play with it." That's perfectly within your rights but it
doesn't build much of a support base.

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com