What's wrong with ActiveState? (was: Is this a dream or a nightmare? (Was Re: XML))

[Cameron Laird]

In article <39e1f314.11798695 at news.davesworld.net>,
David T. Grove <pete at petes-place.com> wrote:
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>ActiveState is a competitor. To me, ActiveState is a pimary antagonist
>of my way of life and my profession, of which latter Perl is, or has
>been, a major part. There's lots of room between those two points of
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>they do (if so, then explain the thousands of mini-anti-as-activists
>who have said their peace since 1998 but have never been employed by
>ActiveState, or listened to), and a lay-off doesn't magically create
>technical and political issues in the public eye that are completely
>unrelated and that affect the entire perl, and now the python,
>communities.
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>My anger toward ActiveState has one basis: the love of the Perl
>language and my faithfulness to its people. Were it anything else, I'd
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>of international unfair trade, anti-trust, and deception. All I'm
>doing is pointing out what is already publicly visible in the hope
>that at some point somebody (either the community or Larry) will wake
>up and smell the rotten fish.
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>This is in full public view. That you need clarification simply states
>that you don't pay attention.
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I'll summarize what I understand from this thread:  you
are angry with ActiveState.  Thousands of other people
are opposed to ActiveState.  The reasons are sufficiently
evident that I could comprehend them without further
explanation if only I would "pay attention".

Thank you for your help in this matter.  Good luck with
CodeMagic and CodeMagicCD; I'm told these are quite useful
and praiseworthy.
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Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>
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