Phil Moore wrote:
> I'd love to respond, and set the record straight... > > Morgan Stanley funded Damian last year, but we did not attempt to > "buy him outright". We did help support him by hiring hom to teach > his excellent courses here for a week last year, and again this > year, too. Yes, I want the community to be very clear that Morgan Stanley have been a first-rate sponsor on my work for YAS/Perl Foundation. Indeed, it is fair to say that, together with Merijn Broeren, Phil has been instrumental in making my work possible. Through various mechanisms (donations, travel support, accommodation, training opportunities, providing a public speaking venue) Morgan Stanley have already been far-and-away the biggest single contributor to my work. In relation to their size, other organizations -- Blackstar, Stonehenge, System Administrators Guild, DynDNS -- may have given a higher relative amount (for which I'm also intensely grateful!), but in absolute terms *no-one* has done more to make The Conway Channel a reality than Morgan. Given that Perl is very widely used on Wall Street, by all the financial giants, it speaks volumes that only one of them so far is community-minded enough to give back to Perl in this way. And in other ways, too. For example, Phil's willingness to give a (superb) keynote at last year's OSCon describing how Perl and Open Source helps Morgan Stanley stay in business. That was a *huge* boost to our community's profile and legitimacy. I'm not on any of these lists, so I don't know the tenor of the discussion that's gone before, but *my* message is simple: Morgan Stanley are most definitely the good guys here. Damian
