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.
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?
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.
I have written more articles for perl.com than Randal has. He writes for Linux Magazine.
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:
Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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