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Scriptics was one of the earlier open-core commercial open source companies (before "open source" was coined) and Stallman took issue with it. He unleashed on JO during a panel for trying to make money from the language he had created with proprietary tools (Scriptics built and sold a proprietary IDE and debugger). There was a big debate at the time.


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