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in thread Oregon Supreme Court declines to hear my case

It has quite a bit to do with Perl, and the Perl community, actually.

My involvement with the case has sucked a lot of spare time and money from me that could have been contributed to the community.

It's why the second camel was delayed.

It's why I haven't released any other books.

It's why I didn't contribute more to the Perl Institute, or even the current Damian and crew funding.

And many of the Perl community are also sys admins, and this case has a strong chilling effect on sys admin activities around the world.

I'd say it affects the Perl community directly.

If it didn't, I wouldn't have posted it.

And just so there's no anonymous downvoting, I'm voting you down for not using your head to see the relevance.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Re: Oregon Supreme Court declines to hear my case
by TheDamian (Vicar) on Dec 26, 2001 at 03:07 UTC
    It's why I didn't contribute more to the Perl Institute, or even the current Damian and crew funding.
    Whatever his other felonies, we certainly can't convict Randal on this count! Last year he individually donated over $5,000 -- 10% of my entire salary funding. In fact, his was the third largest single donation overall.

    Failing to contribute? Not guilty, your Honor!

    ;-)

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(that's not the issue here)
by Jouke (Curate) on Dec 25, 2001 at 15:30 UTC
    Merlyn,

    I expected no less than to be downvoted for my node...and it happened of course. However I still feel that if you posted a node explaining what happened and how we could learn from it, I would have no problem at all with it, in fact, I'd be happy to see it.

    What you did however was telling us something quite unrelated to Perl, being the court decision. People would learn from your story if you explained the whole thing, which I think is no longer nessecary because I think the whole Perl world knows about it already

    Again, I do symphathize with you and I think the State of Oregon is being rediculous, but like I said on the CB yesterday: if anyone else, an unfamous monk, would have posted this, it would most definately be reaped because the content of the node is not related to Perl.

    But that's my final word about it. I expect you will respond to this one, and if I feel the urge to respond again, I'll /msg you.

    May your court-troubles soon be over!

    Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'
    Using Perl to help the disabled: pVoice and pStory
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Render Unto Me A Break
by chip (Curate) on Dec 27, 2001 at 03:25 UTC
    You'd better downvote me too, because I agree that your courtroom drama is not relevant to the Monastery. Your being "world famous in Poland"(1) isn't reason enough to make your major life events points for public discussion.

    When Larry starts posting his stock portfolio, we'll talk. Until then, the Monastery is about Perl, not about people who happen to be known to each other by means of Perl.

    (1) "To Be Or Not To Be"; I've only seen the Mel Brooks version, so I don't know if the Henny Youngman version originated that line.

        -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

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      Until then, the Monastery is about Perl, not about people who happen to be known to each other by means of Perl.
      Have you seen the current poll? Or the previous?
      Have you followed chatterbox conversations?

      I'm with this monastery for about a week now, and I like it. I like it mainly because it isn't just about Perl. It's about people too. Perl people.
      The posts you read, the reputation your posts get and the lines in the chatterbox are the results of people doing things. It'd be rather boring over here if everything was about Perl. ($this->boring(1) if $this->topic() =~ /^[pP]erl$/; - well, people use words, not code.)

      I agree not anyone should post their major life event points. But merlyn means a lot to Perl and the Perl community. I think he didn't post the meditation to entertain us, or to make us feel sorry for him, or to gain XP. I think he posted it to _inform_ those who want to know what's happening. And according to that node's reputation, I'd say many monks DO care. 

      2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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