Squeak is open source.  Each contributor, or in the case of employees 
within the scope or work made for hire contractors, the entity 
commissioning the contribution, owns their independent contributions, 
subject to the Squeak-L license agreement.

Frankly, I can't help and give no credit to loonies who would pick or 
eschew a programming language because of an imputed political evil 
associated with an imputed "owner."  The person clearly is clueless 
about the details of Squeak, its history and the applicable law of title 
to a copyright.

Just ignore this.  The person is either a language bigot who couldn't 
discern a better excuse to pan Smalltalk, or nuts.

On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 12:09  PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> over at ruby-talk I saw the following claim:
>
>> I have noticed the "Pick-Axe" book, "Programming Ruby,"  while looking
>> for new Java and XML books, but I actually went looking for a Java
>> replacement when Sun Microsystems, sadly, made the Life Decisions
>> (http://www.fightpp.org/) boycott list as a supporter of Planned
>> Parenthood. (SmallTalk failed because it's expensive and the owner of
>> Squeak Smalltalk, Disney, is on the same boycott list. I avoid the
>> culture of death as much as possible, since I hope that God will bless
>> my work and fortunes.
>
>
> Please ignore philosophy, religion and politics, but tell me,
> who, right now, is the "owner of squeak"?
>
> s.
>
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> shhhh ... I can't hear my code!
>
>