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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."

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  1. Re:Root 21? by pingveno · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just a note: The legal drinking age is 21. Many of my friends my age or younger (I'm 18) drink alcohol beverages. Sometimes I wonder why the government even bothers. I don't drink, partially because of interactions with a medication I take, and partially because I don't have an urge too. Okay, maybe some of the sips of alcoholic beverages I've had were a little tasty, but it hasn't gone beyond that.

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