A few years ago[*] (at TPC2 no less), John Ousterhout announced that he was pursuing a value-added business model for Tcl. His new company, Scriptics, would be the stewards for the open source Tcl/Tk, and Scriptics would sell commercial extensions for that open source base.
Around that time, a group known as the Tcl Consortium came about to be the commons where multiple vendors could support Tcl alongside Scriptics.
The sad thing is that today, less than 5 years later, the Tcl Consortium has faded away like a drunken hallucination. (Much like The Perl Institute in that respect). There appears to be little relevant information on the web that Google can find; the wayback machine should have some pages cached, thankfully.
Times like this, I look back fondly to High School, where research meant scrolling through reel after reel of microfilm reading the archives of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or any other paper of record.
[*]: This is the event where rms labeled Ousterhout and O'Reilly as parasites. Given rms' lax use of the English language (the only valid use of the term «pirate» is to describe Barbary Pirates and nothing else), I'm not so sure that this is a bad thing. Perhaps what rms meant to do was call Tim O'Reilly a «symbiant», but just jazzed up his lingo to make himself all the more memorable.
