From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T12:29:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)

Hi,

In message "Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)"
    on Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:45:13 +0900, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

|May I ask, Matz: what does this laboratory work on?  And what led it
|to employ you as a language creator?

It's a company named "laboratory", not a laboratory owned by any other
company.  We are researching .. well .. how to run business on open
source software, for example, Ruby.  That explains the reason they
hire me.

							matz.
p.s.
It's not unusual in Japan to name a company "foo bar laboratory" that
does not do actual research things.