On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:41:08AM -0400, brian d foy wrote:
> In article <20120112232237.GA5030@swoosh>, "Philippe Bruhat (BooK)"
> <philippe.bru...@free.fr> wrote:
>
> > - as a side remark, it would be great if the companies that use perl
> > would give back some of the money they saved by not having to pay
> > for a Perl license especially for an event like this one, that is
> > targetted at improving perl & cpan
>
> What other language would they be using that required a license fee?
> That's not to say that they don't benefit from Perl being free, but at
> the same time, you're secretly saying that you wish Perl wasn't free,
> even if indirectly taxed.
>
> Let's not forget that many companies do give back by not giving
> money, but contributing to CPAN, sending patches, and many other
> things. Using open source is not without cost just because there is
> no license fee.
That was just a superfluous snide comment from an irc conversation that
I added without thinking about it too much. It looks like I should have.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The fish most likely to be caught is the one with the biggest mouth.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #17 (Epic))
