Not addressing any of the opinions presented here, but there are two factual error that I must refute.
First clue was Perl.com is owned by O'Reilly.
This is false on its face. See "whois perl.com": 
Registrant:
Perl Consulting
   2227 Canyon Blvd, #262
   Boulder, CO 80302
   US

   Domain Name: PERL.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Christiansen, Tom         tchrist@PERL.COM
      Perl Consulting
      2227 CANYON BLVD APT 262
      BOULDER, CO 80302-5634
      US
      (303) 444-3212 fax: 999 999 9999

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Yup. Tom Christiansen. Last time I looked, he was not even an employee of O'Reilly.

And then there's:

Thirdly, Merlyn is here and he always links to and posts about his articles regarding Perl on the O'Reilly site or newsletter.
I've never written for "the O'Reilly site or newsletter". Ever. I've had an article or two on perl.com where I was being interviewed, but I don't think I pointed to that (although I could be wrong).

I will not challenge the part of "merlyn is here", though. {grin}

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

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