At least someone there is. See LinuxToday for the relevant quote.

The license for beta 2 of Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit (beta 2) specifically lists PERL (sic) among the pieces of open source software that you are not allowed to use to assist in development, or distribute with any applications which you use their toolkit to develop.

Considering that Microsoft is a significant source of funding for ActiveState, this very much seems to be a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. But it is also possible that this is a reaction to the fact that Microsoft executives were badmouthing open source (particularly the GPL) while Microsoft's site continued to distribute GPLed software. Perhaps they feel the need to prove that they really are afraid of open source, just like they want their customers to be..?

BTW the entire license agreement iswas available here. (Search for PERL.)

UPDATE (Jun 29)
The license agreement was available. After appearing on LinuxToday, here, slashdot, and kuro5hin, they moved links and the EULA is no longer at the same location. That looks suspiciously like an attempt at damage control, and I sincerely hope that said damage control extends as far as removing or significantly modifying the objectional terms, rather than just not making the EULA available except to people who are installing the product.

In reply to Microsoft is against Perl!? by tilly

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