It's not to Perlmonks to decide what belongs on CPAN or not

I don't know why I bother but:

  1. Jarkko isn't CPAN. Jarkko does not have control of what CPAN is. CPAN is a central storage location for code authored by thousands. If Jarkko or anybody else started outside of an acceptable area, all that makes up www.cpan.org would move to a suitable alternative.
  2. Nobody here said that the decision whether or not to allow commercial modules on CPAN would be made in this thread. Nobody ever claimed that the side with most posts for it here would win.
  3. Open discussion of such issues is good. This is what this thread is - a discussion. A chance for people to provide different viewpoints on an issue in an attempt to weigh all possible variables and come up with the best solution. Privately emailing Jarkko does not have the same effect.

So since my method of discussing the issues, weighing the advantages and disadvantages and coming up with a best guess solution doesn't appeal to you, I'll try your strategy. Please read the following statement over around 100 times. I'll even add in a second point with a happy face so you'll acquire a positive association.

Perhaps I should get a bell.

In reply to Re: Re: Commercial Perl Mods on CPAN by Anonymous Monk
in thread Commercial Perl Mods on CPAN by xanthos

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