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Re: Directions of perl 5 development - requests from companies

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From:
Steffen Schwigon
Date:
July 3, 2010 12:32
Subject:
Re: Directions of perl 5 development - requests from companies
Message ID:
87sk40wedv.fsf@renormalist.net
Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> writes:
> 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.

I'm not sure. Your argument works in both directions. It could also
mean that features where the initial fun developer (from your original
point) went away can be improved by sponsoring through companies.

Maybe we should just look around to other projects who have corporate
suport and try to find one which got into trouble by this, i.e., which
other language suffered from corporate participation?

Kind regards,
Steffen 
-- 
Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net>
Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>

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