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ActiveState Returns to Open Source Roots

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-you-get-lost-return-to-the-beginning dept.

constab writes "ActiveState, the Sophos-owned company that makes free distributions and commercial programming tools for programming languages like Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl and Ruby, has been sold to a Canadian VC firm. According to the article, ActiveState will go back to its open-source roots and continue development of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl. A full set of Mac OS X on Intel downloads is also in the works."

3 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Root 21? by tepples · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have to be 21 to buy beer, then do you have to be root 21 (that is, 4 years 7 months) to buy root beer?

  2. Huh? by slavemowgli · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We'll go back to our roots by continuing what we currently do." - Huh?

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  3. Re:i luv these guys, but they are doomed by TangoCharlie · · Score: 2, Funny
    I would say that most perl users on the Windows platform are still very much using ActiveState.
    What? both of them!?!

    Seriously, I think you're right. I can't see ActiveState surviving for long now. I don't suppose Sophos would have sold them if there was any mileage left.

    However, It is a shame that Sophos didn't try to captilise on the "open source movement" to help development of the ActiveState products. I like Sophos products and their generally sensible advice about virus threats, as compared to the over-hyped "sales pitch" from Symantec and McAfee.

    Anyway, good luck to ActiveState. I fear they'll need it.

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