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• Individuals yes, Corporates no (Score:3, Insightful)

  by Matts (1087) on 2002.07.03 13:30 (#10198) Journal

  I can agree with individuals thinking like that - often there are more significant things going on in the world than supporting a programming language. But corporates need to take a long hard look at how much they spend on Visual Studio  .NET and MSDN subscriptions, and realise just how much they get for free from perl.
  
  Yes, I speak of this as someone from a company who has not yet donated. I'm trying.

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  • Re:Individuals yes, Corporates no (Score:2)

    by hfb (74)

    You aren't getting it, so I'll be more blunt.

    I was a grant officer for a foundation for a number of years and one of the sometimes written rules of thumb was "If the organisation doesn't care enough to get the community involved, we can't be bothered." It's a big red flag. Why should any company give money to this foundation when so many seem to think themselves above doing so? They won't or maybe a few will, but they shouldn't until this community figures out that supporting the foundation from within is
    • Re:Individuals yes, Corporates no (Score:2)

      by Matts (1087)

      I didn't say I thought myself above giving (for whatever it's worth, I changed jobs and took a massive pay cut, and so live to the very edge of my salary - giving simply isn't on the schedule right now).
      
      I wouldn't even dream of arguing that people should think of not helping out with TPF. If they can, they should. But, I can see Simon's point, that we don't *need* Perl 6. Not like those starving in Africa *need* a meal. That's all. Make of it what you will.
      
      On the flip side, TPF does *need* us, so if you c
      • Re:Individuals yes, Corporates no (Score:2)

        by hfb (74)

        Simon's point is so obvious as to be irrelevant. The perl community is where you live and if it fails it will be a lesser place for the lack of it.