Re: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions

slava@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> You can't just slap together some shareware and expect people to pay
> outrageous sums of money for it.

If those people want the product and can't be bothered to create it
themselves, then the price will settle to something reasonable.

> If there is a better free or OSS equivalent, people *will* use it
> instead of your stupid program that you are selling for $500.

But if no such free version existed, would you go create it and give
it away just to put this first vendor out business? Don't you have
something better to do, such as creating a different product that you
can sell too?

--
Steven E. Harris
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