Re: [SLE] Closed Source on Linux?

From: Jerry Westrick (jerry_at_westrick.com)
Date: 11/17/05

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:31:21 +0100

    On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:53, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
    >
    > What do others think about the place of closed source, proprietary software
    > running on Linux?
    >
    > Steven

    For the last 3 years I've maintain an ActivePerl Pro Studio subscription with
    activestate (Currently slightly over 500$/yr). I develop both open and
    closed source projects with their komodo ide. I enjoy the Safari Book shelf
    (practically: read all the books from your local book store online!), and
    require the perl-script to .exe compiler for windows distribution of my
    projects.

    IMHO it's well worth the steep price, and a must for professionals.

    Jerry.

    BTW. it's an example of a company building (closed source) professional tools
    for open source languages. No problem here...

    P.S. Before you turn on your flame thrower, please take a look at what
    activestate has done for the opensource community! 

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