My apologies for including your name in my post. Your reputaion is obviously important to you and I could have just as easily pointed to any of dozens of other notes here about problems people have had contributing open source code or documentation or using open source code in professional Perl projects.

As to the truth or falsity of my statement that you've had some concerns that perhaps could have been avoided with better contracts I thought that my reference to Perl book writing would be a clear enough hint that you and others who have been around a while would know what I was referring to, if they had the inclination to think about it. That situation happened 5 years ago now, though, and I was out of line to bring it up and open up old wounds.

Obviously I don't know the details of your personal business dealings either, so I shouldn't have brought it up in this context. Rather than posting a link to an old thread that you might rather not have linked to, I'll just make the statement that the situation I was referring to was one in which merlyn appeared to get the short end. That is to say it wasn't a situation where merlyn took advantage of anyone else, but possibly the opposite. I'm sending you a link to the thread privately should you choose to post it.