From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2001-05-30T11:41:25+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:16005] Re: Ruby Standard and Enterprise Edition On Wed, 30 May 2001 00:44:48 GMT, ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote: >In article <3B4B4F3B@operamail.com>, >Benjamin J. Tilly wrote: >>Lothar Scholz wrote: >>>On Wed, 30 May 2001 07:44:58 +0900, Glen Starchman >>> wrote: >>[...] >> >>Off of the top of my head, the following small companies are >>based on open source and as far as I know are doing just fine: >>Loki, Crynwr, Sleepycat, Stonehenge, Ars Digita, Scyld, >>Aladdin... Loki ??? Perhaps they have some very small minor product spin offs like the installer - but mainly they are very very closed source. >And in this particular product space there is ActiveState which has been >making noises about supporting Ruby ... They seem to be doing well. > You got the Source code for Kommodo ?? I only got an offer to buy it for 400$ I was talking about the companies which tried to live on open source support without having a proprietary product. I don't believe that there is a chance to change this. All you get is turning your "company" into a consulting agency - but than developing time must be very reduced.