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/>Thread Previous