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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, David Grove wrote: > I'm not talking about corporate interference or selling out like [...] is > trying to do with perl. Is that "[...]" crap supposed to be more polite than outright slander? > Old marketing surveys from 96-97 showed that companies were moving from > Novell and Unix to NT because they thought they had no choice. Since that > time, that choice has been a painful and expensive one. If we can't > straighten out microsoft for them, we can at least give them high quality > tools. Bizarre. You have a truely strange view of Perl's place in the universe. How exactly is Perl supposed to help people trying to use NT in place of Unix? Why should we want to? > Advocacy is a good thing, right? False. Advocacy *can* be a good thing. Advocacy can also be a very bad thing. It all depends on what you're advocating and how. I imagine you can guess what a large portion of perl5-porters thinks of your kind of "advocacy" by now. -samThread Previous | Thread Next