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ActiveState Founder Steps Aside
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."
"that" should be "whom", not
"which", b/c it refers to "for someone".
#@!(& grammar trolls!
Why'd you say 'burma'?
--I panicked.
bwahahaha.
sorry. it's immature and all, but c'mon, dick hardt... it's funny.
the original "that" is correct. I don't know why the [sic] was necessary. "Which" would be incorrect. I think "whom" is wrong also.
> "that" should be "whom"
You must mean "who", not "whom", which is objective (i.e. "Whom did you have in mind?"). In any case, last time I checked "a person that..." was perfectly grammatical. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary handily supplies the following Shakespeare quote: "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me" (as opposed to "him _who_ lets me", which of course would have been just as legitimate).
"that has that experience"
The errant "that" above is functioning as a subject here, hence the need for "who".
To fall back on the old grammar school test, let's make things third-person singular. Would it be "she has that experience" or "her has that experience"?