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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. "[sic]" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How pretentious is that. Jeez. Only the MS Word grammar checker cares about the that/which distinction.

  2. Trouble with AS Perl by B3ryllium · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always had problems getting ActiveState Perl to work in Windows. Maybe it was the fault of the OmniHTTPd server, I dunno. Ah well.

  3. could it be? by okmijnuhb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this an attempt to "Slashdot" this company's stock?

  4. Re:one word. by vsprintf · · Score: 2, Funny

    And in today's marketplace, what percentage of the resumes/CVs crossing their desk do you think will be from competent, well meaning CEOs?

    Hey, Carly Fiorna should be finished raid^H^H^H^Hhelping HP pretty soon. Maybe she'd be interested.

  5. I'll tell you what happened - from the inside by puppetluva · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was at the final "let's get rid of Dick Hardt" board meeting fiasco. What a mess. . . here's what happened.

    Everything starts out ok. . . typical boring board minutes stuff, somebody announces that we have a special guest and then who walks in? Fritz Hollings, Michael Eisner, Kenneth Lay and the DVD Consortium, trying to jack the whole proceedings! Well, Van Rossum and Wall completely freak out. Wall is like "get out of here you /^(f[uc|rea]k)ing m.*dia.*$/$1 you/" and Rossum starts shouting about how no-one respects his space and how it was time for something completely different, blah, blah, blah. ESR starts mumbling to Guido about how Ovitz is finally going to get whacked, and then it really gets weird. . .

    The whole room goes silent, the lights dim, this evil-looking powerpoint starts playing and this menacing voice starts calling for the elimination of Dick Hart. . . When I saw who it was, I couldn't believe it. I always kinda figured Microsoft's investment might sink the company, but I never knew who was behind all of this - most of the other ActiveStaters never would've guessed it either...A cloaked figure emerged from the break-room shadows and revealed himself to be. . .

    Cowboy Neal.

    (did you guess right?)