Re: Re: seeking the root of all evil (or the sum?)

Woops!

I had no intention to flame or insult anyone/everyone, I'm just a capitalist pig looking for ways to rip people off by charging lots of money for code that should be free anyway (hehe, just kidding ;-) )

Thanks for letting me know it was in the FAQ (asking a question on PM is generally faster than reading through thousands of bytes of FAQ texts)

But wouldn't it be a great way for Perl to gain acceptance in the (99% closed source) Windows world? (I'm thinking that's why Java, C and whatever other languages are so popular: they're free, easy, powerful and commercially exploitable)

my two eurocents,
CBAS

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Re (tilly) 3: seeking the root of all evil (or the sum?) by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 17, 2001 at 23:17 UTC
Faster how? Compare, say, 30 minutes of your time to 30 seconds of 500 people's time each. Which is faster? Besides which, why should Perl care about gaining acceptance among people who don't understand why it is being given away in the first place? A lot of the people who are giving away Perl don't mind if people producing closed software find their stuff useful, but see no reason to be helpful to that. Quite the contrary, if you want to distribute obfuscated source then that is your problem and you can do something about it if you care. Now before you think that this is arrogant, rude, etc just remember that this is donated effort. If you feel inclined to help Perl be other than it is, you are free to do as they do and donate a working solution. (In case you didn't notice, I already gave you at least one hint for how you might do that in another post. No you wouldn't want to use that module, but the fact that it is possible might give you cause to reflect.) Unless you are willing to do that, then you don't really have much to complain about in my books...	[reply]
(jeffa) leave my $Perl alone by jeffa (Bishop) on Feb 17, 2001 at 22:49 UTC
No - I think that is terrible idea. If you want to hide your code from others, then please stick to Java, C, or Visual Basic. Please leave my $Perl alone. It is perfectly fine, threads would be nice, but nobody is perfect. I would hate to see it turned into some user-friendly corporate exploitable language. One word: LAWYERS (/me shudders) Jeff R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R-- L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--	[reply]