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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
July 2, 2010 09:01
Subject:
Re: Directions of perl 5 development - requests from companies
Message ID:
20100702160138.GM2841@iabyn.com
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 06:57:33PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> So maybe when quoting a price to the companies we just need to
> multiply it by 2 or 3 and put the rest of the money in the bank account
> of TPF so it can be used for later grants to fix those features.

Yes, but the issue is that there are very few people available to fix
those bugs, whether as volunteers or paid. So encouraging companies to
fund new features just increases the bugginess and unmaintainability of
perl.

-- 
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

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