Good question. Presumably nothing, hell they may even be using perl internally in some of its products with us none the wiser. And dont forget that Microsoft paid GSAR and ActiveState a considerable amount of money (I heard 20 Mil) to improve Win32 Perl. Have you not noticed the

Support for concurrent interpreters and the fork() emulation was implemented by ActiveState, with funding from Microsoft Corporation.

in perlfork? (And no doubt there are more like it elsewhere).

Personally i wish AS all the luck they can get. They are an excellent company doing wonderful things with and for Perl. I wish people would stop bitching that they expect to earn a living while doing so. Especially as I and many others earn a living by using their software.

--- demerphq
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