1. More than half the books in print about Perl are from publishers other than O'Reily. It's surprising, but a number are from Microsoft Press (or subsidiaries thereof). It just so happens that the good books tend to be printed by O'Reilly. I think that's because the good authors prefer to work with O'Reilly, where possible.
  2. Someone has to pay for perl.com. I'm glad a private entity stepped up to do so. If it was in the public domain, would you help pay for it?
  3. Tim O'Reilly is a very big opensource advocate and sponsor. Not just of Perl, but of the whole community. As such, he is very well regarded.
  4. I have written more articles for perl.com than Randal has. He writes for Linux Magazine.
  5. I doubt many people here are friends with merlyn. Many of us respect the hell out of him, but that doesn't mean we worship him.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: O'reilly some sort of perl monopoly? by dragonchild
in thread O'reilly some sort of perl monopoly? by Anonymous Monk

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