Well if you have been here many many years, you shouldn't feel the need to hide behind anon monk. But that is just me.

A monopoly? I really don't see where you are getting at? Are they defining how Perl will be developed? Or were they smart enough to recognize what was going to happen and court major people to write for them?

Now as to perl.com being public domain? Why? What is gained by it? They are paying to house it and they are paying for the ISP. Are they charging you for access?

Now as to their publishing? Are they preventing others from doing the same? I have other publishers and I have found a couple books to be better then O'Reilly. For example, I don't always recommend "Learning Perl" Some people I know would respond better to other books.

Finally, Merlyn's posts? Again so what? Yes he announces things. Why is that wrong? Are others prevented from doing the same? Why is it an issue? By your logic the Chatterbox should not be allowed as it is not always about Perl. PM's too.

Finally, I have yet to see your point here. You haven't presented a good argument that O'Reilly is hurting Perl.

In reply to Re: O'reilly some sort of perl monopoly? by Marza
in thread O'reilly some sort of perl monopoly? by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.