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That's because you're not supposed to ask the lawyer if you should do something. You ask their boss if you can do it and ask them them how to do it.

I'm not sure why it took so long, but I think that lawyers dragging their feet probably wasn't it. I'm guessing that they would have never announced the release, unless the lawyers had already signed off on it. I think instead, it took them 5 years to make the landing page (something like this would normally take two years, but the pandemic wasted three years of that time.)

It's a fairly safe bet that the benchmarking clause was not inserted with knowledge of the Lisa and its relevance today as a historical artifact.