To conclude: they could, but they won't.

As far as I know $some_big_company has already poured lots of cash into the Perl5 project, and didnt try to steal it. The oneperl effort and GSAR's/ActiveState's work on Perl 5.6 was at least partially funded by $some_big_company.

So I think the evidence indicates you are totally correct that they won't.

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