This is quite interesting princepawn, and it explains some of your previous posts.

The basic problem is that you think in terms of shareware/freeware, while I, as most (all?) of the authors on CPAN belong to the Open Source community. When you grab a module from CPAN you don't get the right to annoy the author or to ask them for support. You get the source. You can use the software if you like it, or read it for educational purposes or modify it if you find a bug or improve it or do whatever you want with it. But it comes with zero rights to support.

Now granted most of the author, including me and I'd be willing to bet ERYQ and Jean-Louis Leroy, do support their modules. If you ask nicely and dont act nasty we are more than happy to help you or anybody else, answer questions, add features, apply patches... But we do all that out of pure good will, because we enjoy it. So the minute you start acting like a jerk and start demanding things and complaining about the lack of support, the whole thing is not that fun anymore, and we might well tell you to go back to buying shareware and not being able to patch the darn thing when it doesn't work properly.

As for PerlMonks and Vroom being in control... Vroom has done a terrific job at creating this community and at maintaining the site and adding features. It works fairly well and suggested improvements are quite minor. So I think he's shown that he can be trusted, we all enjoy the site, why on Earth would we want to make his life less enjoyable? Let him go on running the site and let's try to provide him with the means to keep on doing it. I am quite sure he does a better job than I would do, so why would I want a piece of power here besides posting rights?

In reply to Re: I pay for what I like by mirod
in thread Why did people vote for this? by tilly

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