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LispMe Frequently Asked Questions
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Why is LispMe now Free Software instead of shareware?
There are several reasons for this change:
- The abundance of poorly written software for the Pilot. Unfortunately
nowadays even the simplest applications are shareware. There are
some simple hacks consisting of at most 100 lines of code, and the author
is charging 5 or 10$! Some people seem to have forgotten
what made the success of the PalmOS platform: An open API and
free tools causing a huge software pool.
- With the ever growing diversity of hardware and software versions
for PalmOS, I'm no longer able to test every combination by myself.
So, even with with detailed bug reports, I couldn't always
reproduce the problems other users had.
- Most implementations of Scheme are free and I feel obliged to
their creators, as without them I wouldn't have learned this
wonderful language.
- Most of the tools used for creating LispMe are Free Software
theirselves.
- Finally, I hope all people who registered LispMe (and several
paid much more than I originally requested!), accept this change
and won't regret their investment. And many of them asked for
the source code and gave me reasons why to contribute to the
Free Software resource pool.