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• WTF? (Score:2, Insightful)

  by grantm (164)

  ActiveState pay talented people to work on Open Source software, they build and package that software for a number of platforms, they make it available for free (anonymous) download from their web site and they host a large number of mailing lists where people can get free support for their products as well as mailing lists not directly related to their products. That all costs a significant amount of money and yet they do it for free. What's to hate about that?

  ActiveState also have developed a number o
  • Re:WTF? (Score:0)

    by mdxi (4658)

    Look. I don't doubt that they give back to the community, etc., etc. In fact, I so don't doubt it that I never said anything about it at all.

    All I said was that ActiveState Perl on Windows am like bizarro Perl on Unix. Maybe this isn't even their fault; maybe it's just what happens when you have to touch Windows; I'll never know.

    But I reserve the right to be seriously turned off by it and write flamey haiku about it.
    • haiku is bad (Score:1)

      by podmaster (3169) on 2004.04.02 5:01 (#29832) Journal

      three short lines
            secondhand bull and lies
                        haiku is bad
      
      I think it unwise to bash things
      you haven't tried out.
      I use perl on windows
      (activeperl and activeperl flavored)
      all the time and I got no
      problems or complaints
      
                        ActivePerl runs
            Go 'n' Get It, It runs good
                        ActivePerls fun
      
      

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