>From: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: 3.9 Oddities
>Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:01:33 -0700
>
>No tut-tut. Remember, we weren't vendors. You have to look at this (and 
>other decisions) in relation to the big fish we were trying to fry (which 
>was NOT to build a "free Smalltalk" even though that's what it 
>unfortunately degenerated to).
>

Are you saying that squeak being open source/free is a bad thing?  Smalltalk 
probably would
have broke into the market a lot sooner if it had not cost to program in it. 
  Squeak may wind
up being the single most important thing in the history of smalltalk before 
all is said and done.

One just has to remember Apple vs. Microsoft.  Apple said "write anything 
you want on our
system but we get royalties on it".  Microsoft said "write anything you 
want, no royalty costs
from us".  One of those two companies almost went extinct, the other 
contains a couple of
guys who show up on the "world's richest people" list.