Symbolics OpenGenera to go free for non-commercial use
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Symbolics Technologies has announced that Symbolics Genera and the Virtual Lisp Machine (VLM) are now available under a free non-commercial use license. The release is currently in an invitation-only early beta period, with unanswered applications held for a later date. Community responses include requests for a crowdfunding campaign to achieve a fully libre license, questions about the website crashing from traffic, skepticism about productivity claims on the site, and nostalgic recollections from former Symbolics workstation users.
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What license is Symbolics Genera and the Virtual Lisp Machine available under?
Symbolics Genera and the Virtual Lisp Machine (VLM) are available under a free for non-commercial use license. The release is currently in an invitation-only early beta period; applications that do not receive an invitation are held until a later date. More details are available at symbolics.biz. Developers following the Lisp and retrocomputing ecosystem track announcements like this on daily.dev.