From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-05-14T04:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveState Contest

Hi --

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2003 dblack@superlink.net wrote:
>
> > Hi --
> >
> > On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
> >
> > > ActiveState is holding a contest to determine 'your favorite programmer'
> > > (awards to be given at OSCON).  However, they have no option for choosing
> > > Ruby developers at their voting page.  Perhaps this is an oversight which
> > > could be rectified if brought to their attention.
> >
> > They say that "Awards will be presented in each of ActiveState's key
> > technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT."  I don't think Ruby
> > (at the moment) belongs on that list, does it?  (I mean based on what
> > ActiveState does, not based on merit obviously :-)
> >
>
> On the other hand, they say that Ruby is not one of their key technologies
> because they don't hear enough about it in the marketplace.  Perhaps this
> is a good opportunity to speak up and let them hear about it.  (Or, I
> could just be tilting at windmills again.)

I spoke to Gurusamy Sarathy of ActiveState at Linux Expo in New York
recently about Ruby, and he said that the main obstacle to their
getting involved with Ruby is [dare I say this and risk starting a
thead? :] licensing, specifically of the regular expression engine.

I'm afraid I don't know any more about it, but there may be people who
do, so over to them :-)


David

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