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In article <1992Dec15.042930.23371@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
   [Stuff about free implementations of Dylan deleted...]

   I, for one, believe that Dylan is mostly just a tool for Apple to get
   people locked into their universe by promising all sorts of
   performance/abilities/etc. on hardware that has yet to be shown (Newton)
   which has already been majorly backpeddled on because Apple knows they
   can't deliver.  Sculley has made all sorts of pronoucements about the
   future of the palmtop/PDA/PIM/whatever and he has neither the hardware
   (though I believe they have cut the specs again to try and get the cost
   down) nor the software (a Dylan based OS, I believe, which certainly is not
   proven) to fulfill those big words so he has stated that the market will
   now arrive (surpise :-) at about the same projected dates for a real,
   cheap, version of Newton (which, of course, gives the OS/Dylan people time
   to gain converts and make the thing actually work efficiently, etc.).

Sounds almost like the strategy that some folks (can't remember the
name of the organization right now, sorry) used a few years back.  I
seem to remember reading some "Manifesto" or something years ago,
promising a free Unix clone; but it seems to just have turned out to
be a scam for getting programmers to donate their code to this
organization and gulling idealists into proselytizing their silly
politics.
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Roland Dreier                                        dreier@math.berkeley.edu