Re: Undermining the Perl Language

2000-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:49:51AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > David> I was primarily addressing the issue of the P5P allowing the > David> language to be controlled by corporate presence through a > David> purchased pumking, and not taking responsibility for the > David> language suffic

Re: Undermining the Perl Language

2000-10-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "David" == David Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I was primarily addressing the issue of the P5P allowing the David> language to be controlled by corporate presence through a David> purchased pumking, and not taking responsibility for the David> language sufficient to protect it ag

RE: Undermining the Perl Language

2000-10-01 Thread David Grove
> *All* communities have this. It's the nature of people. Pretending it might > be otherwise is to paint a rather pleasant utopian fantasy that, > unfortunately, can't exist. (At least not one that has people in it) It's > one of the common failings of people involved in open source projects. > As

Re: Undermining the Perl Language

2000-10-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, followups to this belong in -meta (alas Eudora doesn't let you set reply-to's, or I would), so if everyone would, please? At 12:14 PM 10/1/00 -0500, David Grove wrote: >On Sunday, October 01, 2000 4:02 PM, Jean-Louis Leroy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >wrote: > > > The Perl-KGB-elite has got t

Undermining the Perl Language

2000-10-01 Thread David Grove
On Sunday, October 01, 2000 4:02 PM, Jean-Louis Leroy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > The Perl-KGB-elite has got to go, and a free republic must replace > > it. > > I wouldn't go as far as your entire post, neither in form nor content, > but I do have concerns about the sociopsycho(patho)logy