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!