18:08:26palterSymbolics Technologies is pleased to announce that Symbolics Genera and the Virtual Lisp Machine (VLM) are now available under a free for non-commercial use license. We are currently in an invitation-only early beta period. If you apply but did not receive an invitation, your application will be held until a later date. For details, please visit https://symbolics.biz/.
20:13:33JohnCowanbetter than nothing, but still ridiculous
20:14:27JohnCowanwho's going to pay for a commercial license?
20:15:45dloweI can only assume that the military has had some mission-critical software running on Genera all this time and they finally ported it to Java or something
20:16:09dloweand (importantly) it is illegal to charge the military a different price than everyone else
20:16:28dlowewhich is how Allegro gets away with its bonkers pricing structure
20:18:47skulkthe claims about LLMs on that website are _wild_
20:19:53JohnCowanit is more than doubtful than SymTech actually owns the rights