It's not really as if you held all of your beliefs to yourself :) - when it comes to Microsoft, you also have your causes and crusades. But I think that the spirit of Perl (or maybe rather the spirit of Perlmonks) is not that Perl is the one language that does it all without restricting the single user in how it should be done - at least, Perl's motto is "There is more than one way to do it".

I think it is exactly that spirit of diversity, that draws those different people to Perl and allows both of us to spend time here and learn together.