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ActiveState Founder Steps Aside

Posted by chrisd on from the if-you-don't-know-perl-you-don't-know... dept.

Lumpish Scholar writes "ActiveState founder Dick Hardt has quit. Or, as the press release puts it, "ActiveState Expands Board & Founder Steps Aside." No reason for the resignation was given, unless you count, "The company is looking to become a $100 million company, and they're looking for someone ... that [sic.] has that experience." ActiveState (profitably!) distributes its own proprietary products, and also both free and commercially supported versions of Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT, having given back significantly to the free / Open Source communities associated with those languages."

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  1. Re:"[sic]" by electricmonk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny how you attribute MS Word with the property of being the only word processor that actually understands correct grammar. Aren't there any open source programs that can understand English grammar correctly, or are open source developers as illiterate as you are?

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  2. one word. by edrugtrader · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    w00t.

    congrats to all involved, and kudos to the CEO for realizing he was in over his head. nothing worse than a CEO that doesn't know how to be a CEO.

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  3. Re:Trouble with AS Perl by MisterBlister · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Maybe its because you are DUMB!

    Dummy!