Visual Smalltalk Enterprise: Difference between revisions

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'''Visual Smalltalk Enterprise''' (VSE) is a [[Smalltalk]] dialect that runs only on Microsoft Windows, and is the last in a long line of Smalltalk implementations first produced by Digitalk and now available through Cincom.

Active development has stopped since around 1999<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hoyer|first1=Henrik|title=Is Cincom slowly killing Visual Smalltalk Enterprice|url=http://forum.world.st/Is-Cincom-slowly-killing-Visual-Smalltalk-Enterprice-td2513847.html|website=SmallTalk forum|accessdate=2015-12-23}}</ref> and VSE is now only available as a version called VSE 2000, and only to licensed users of previous VSE versions.

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==Copyrights, licensing==

A result of the complex history is that the copyright and licensing situation is unclear. Active development on VSE has stopped since around 1999<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hoyer|first1=Henrik|title=Is Cincom slowly killing Visual Smalltalk Enterprice|url=http://forum.world.st/Is-Cincom-slowly-killing-Visual-Smalltalk-Enterprice-td2513847.html|website=SmallTalk forum|accessdate=2015-12-23}}</ref> and a typical recent VSE development environment is made up of many elements many of which were developed by third parties and sold separately but are now included with the distribution.

The situation with the most recent release (VSE 2000) is: