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From:
Andrew Rodland
Date:
July 16, 2011 17:05
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] [DOCS] Modernize perlopentut.pod
Message ID:
CABFQKmNhEajH2ebp1ZhJWicxV=yn1Wgr2NociX6KjcxT2MKh1A@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:

> In the meantime, I reject this PC crap.  I would prefer
> that my documentation be wholly removed from the distribution
> than that it should be bastardized in a way that compromises
> its message and run counters to my wishes.
>

 Perl needs documentation written and maintained by people who understand
that pod/ is exactly as much open-source as the rest of the tree, that no
one "owns" any part of the documentation, and that the community will have
its way with anything that they write. People who contributed without that
understanding, and who can't work within that framework, should be offered
the opportunity to remove their work, but not the opportunity to exert
territorial control over it.


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