In the Perl community, you are given a programming language and lots and lots of help for free. As a result, if you turn around and hide your source code, it's often frowned upon.

I hear a lot of people complaining about businesses failing to adopt Perl. These people give many reasons for why this is, ranging from lack of certifications to the fact that certain other languages have huge corporations backing them. These are all valid, but often what is left out is the attitude of many members of the Perl community.

I agree with you that there are often far better options than compiling Perl, but the attitude that developers owe their code to the community does not benefit Perl or free software at all, it only serves to prevent some businesses from considering Perl as an option.

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