Adam. Please do not see my questions and calls for consultation in this thread as dissention to the basic motives of your OP. Indeed I am enthused to be a participant in addressing the underlying causes of the problems you are trying to address.

Please see Re^9: [JOB] The Perl Foundation seeks Windows Developer for some explanation of my requests of further information/consultation before commiting to support the project. I would like to be a part of the solution, (on the TPF dime or not, though it certainly would help), but I remain unconvinced that as described, that the project would achieve it's goals in the long term.

Half of what you say in the above post encourages me; but the other half leaves me unsure as to whether the project as described would achieve anything long term to address the underlying causes of Win32 incompatibilities.