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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. IN THA hizouse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Vanilla ice is THA MAN.


    Eminem is a punk sucka


    Kim's a nice lay, tho.


    FP


    VI!!!!

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post! First post!

  3. ActivePorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All you need is right here! Go get some ActivePorn today!

    THIS IS NOT A TROLL!!

  4. Re:"[sic]" by burma · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "that" should be "whom", not
    "which", b/c it refers to "for someone".

    #@!(& grammar trolls!

    --
    Why'd you say 'burma'?
    --I panicked.
  5. Re:With a name like that... by joe_bruin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    bwahahaha.

    sorry. it's immature and all, but c'mon, dick hardt... it's funny.

  6. Now they need a new Slogan!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It used to be: "If you don't know Perl you don't know Dick"..

    Somehow though "If you don't know Perl you don't know Nick" doesn't quite have the same ring to it..

    How about "If you know Nick, then you don't know Dick"?

  7. Guess what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I fucked tbl's mom in the ASS.... TWICE!

    1. Re:Guess what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's not her ass.

    2. Re:Guess what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Fuuuuuuuuuck! It wasn't?!

  8. That's right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope! You did *much* better. Closer to the mark. Less mess (for you at least).

  9. Re:"[sic]" by DeepDarkSky · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    the original "that" is correct. I don't know why the [sic] was necessary. "Which" would be incorrect. I think "whom" is wrong also.

  10. Re:Fps sux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ok moderators...

    can we not have this damn AC shit?

  11. Slashdot promoting use of tobbaco? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look buddy, the Camel logo on perl is a ripoff of R. J Royland's Tobacco company's Camel brand. This is not the same camel featured on the cover of O'rilly's camel books. This is a pure rip of the cig cover case from the new Turkish brand Camel mendarin mint. WTF is going on? Are we trying to get geeks to give up on the hash and weed and take this tar filled gut wrencher instead? Come on ppl.

    1. Re:Slashdot promoting use of tobbaco? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      damn i didnt realize this till u said very good observation btw for the ppl who dunno please look at both camels and see that on salshdot they use the camel that is from the camel cover on the camel cig case i dunno why this is so but it looks that way maybe this was from stock image but i think the logo for camel is copyrighted and they wont like it to be associated with something other than their cigs i dunno maybe im wrong but worth looking into thx dave

  12. activeanus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh god..yes yes oh Taco i'm about to cum in your asss!

    uhhhhhh!!!!!

    yeah Spring Arbor College up your ass Taco!

    Fucking hope!

  13. Re:"[sic]" by kungfuBreaks · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > "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).

  14. Re:"[sic]" by realgone · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    With the notable exception of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, one would use "who" in this case.

    "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"?

  15. Re:With a name like that... by Ryu2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe he's the new spokesman for Viagra -- his name is perfect! :)

    --
    There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.