Last year at the Open Source Expo in NY, I was really amused to see RMS and Eric
Raymond agree for the first time in history where Chinese
Linux companies were pirating the OS.
But how can you pirate free s/w ??? Makes no sense to the lay reader; in the end it
will be average people who support perl and pay us to
implement it. Perl is big, big, big, but its total volume can never be measured
because we still live somewhat underground, at least I do.
That should change soon because the Perl6 organizational structure is showing signs of
maturity. I for one am committed to seeing every design
feature supported flawlessly, ( though I am not yet too sure how I am going to do
that, especially since M SCHWERN has vaporized )
So I am going to make the following bold proposal:
The problem isn't with the artistic license; it is with the GNU license. So let's fix
the GPL.
Like, who do we know in Boston who is tough as nails (and doesn't pay for her own
drinks)?
My whole point is to try to prevent a schism of the free s/w community to make sure
the world gets the best benefit from perl6. This would
include parallel languages such as Ruby.
