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))