From: Tim Hammerquist <tim@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T11:01:32+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

gabriele renzi graced us by uttering:
> tim hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx> ha scritto::
> > This show that, as much as M$ might prefer their own
> > languages to dominate, they can't deny the Perl market and
> > are willing to, in small or large part, support it at a
> > personal loss.  The pseudo-fork code for Perl is, of course,
> > available with the rest of the Perl source under the free
> > (beer+speech) Artistic License...
>
> I think MS is alwys been a perl supporter.  you can even see
> that themself use perl:

There was a great article about 5 years ago that talked about
individual MS engineers insisting on using Perl internally.

However, at my work (a major slot machine developer and
manufacturer), several engineers use Linux but the company does
not "support" Linux or any form of OSS, nor does it have any
official stance on them.

Thus, I don't think MS's use of secondary use Perl indicates
"support" of Perl, but I do believe their financial investment in
the development of Perl should be considered supporting.

My USD$0.02,
Tim Hammerquist
-- 
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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