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Stories · 5
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TCL Creator Writes Article on Open Source
Zagadka writes "John Ousterhout, creator of TCL, has written an article called Free Software Needs Profit for Dr. Dobb's. It discusses the relationship open source software and commercial software can have with each other. " -
TCL Creator Writes Article on Open Source
Zagadka writes "John Ousterhout, creator of TCL, has written an article called Free Software Needs Profit for Dr. Dobb's. It discusses the relationship open source software and commercial software can have with each other. " -
TCL Creator Going Commercial
P.J. Hinton writes "The July 2 Unix Riot column at Performance Computing (the periodical formerly known as Unix Review) includes a blurb about Tcl inventor John Ousterhout going commercial with a company by the name of Scriptics. Their main product will be a Tcl/tk development environment called TclPro. The company's website says that the product is in beta. " I'm glad to see that the folks that created all this cool stuff are going to be able to get something in return... -
Tcl/Tk Scriptics
Carsten Zerbst writes "The new Homepage off Tcl/Tk, the famous scripting language is now running at ScripticsThis new company lead by John Ousterhood is founded to take over the core developpment of Tcl from the Sunscript Division. The Website should be a standard repository for Tcl and the Plugin as well for the many extensions available. Tcl/Tk is one off the oldest success story of open software and a development model driven by the a central organistion assisted by many users. " -
John Ousterhout leaves SunScript
Markus Fleck (aka python) wrote in to say "John Ousterhout, author of the Tcl language and the Tk toolkit, also of Spring OS fame, has left SunScript to form his own company, called Scriptics, to promote the use and further development of Tcl. - I suppose that Sun didn't find paying for Tcl development worthwhile any more, because there has hardly been any revenue from it yet (even the source for the Tcl Plugin for web browsers was made freely available when a poll showed that too few people would be willing to pay for being able to execute "Tclets" in their browsers)."