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If I remember correctly, ActiveState has been in business for two decades, their news goes back to 1998, and I remember using their Perl for Windows in 1998, so
by hga 12y ago
If I remember correctly, ActiveState has been in business for two decades, their news goes back to 1998, and I remember using their Perl for Windows in 1998, so they seem to be doing something right.
What I remember from back in the '90s was that you paid them for polish, support and running well on alien systems like Windows. When I first used them, it was in a "Windows Shop" (well, I was the 2nd programmer :-), and their Perl was a trivial to get running version which then allowed me to show what such a language could do for the right tasks, e.g. an IIS backend page in it instead of Javascript or VB, or quickly importing a database of Nielson advertising categories for a contract with them.
- Zuider 12y agoI have the greatest respect and regard for ActiveState, and I am grateful for their community editions. I believe that they were pioneers in this at a time when one either had to spend a lot of money, or go through the headache of compiling your own distribution if you wanted to use a half-way decent language on Windows, even just to learn. It makes good sense to buy a license if one is going to use one of their products commercially because the value that they add is well worth the price. I just hadn't realized that I would be contravening the license agreement if I had used one of their community editions to make money.