Did it occur to you that maybe O'Reilly just cares more about Perl than other companies do? Anyone could have sponsored perl.com (and paid chromatic to edit it, which he is doing a great job with), and anyone could publish the best Perl books, and anyone could host a great Perl conference, but O'Reilly actually puts their money where their mouth is and does these things. They are currently the most open-source friendly publishing company in existence, and Perl has been greatly helped by their efforts at promoting and marketing it. Feel free to start your own company and do it yourself, but until then, why don't you stop biting the hand that feeds for a minute?

The reality is more like the Perl communtiy is trying to hold onto a monopoly on O'Reilly's attention and money. I hope it lasts a bit longer.

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

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