Looks like the Community (Perl, Python, whatever) needs the following institutions:
1. Legal liability shield: a lawyer (or a partnership of lawyers) which agrees, in exchange for a fee, to guarantee that the company won't be exposed to legal liabilities as long as they comply with the lawyer's instructions concerning the practical issues of complying with GPLv2 (or in the case of Perl/CPAN - Artistic License). 2. Module guardians - each important CPAN module is "adopted" by one or more businesses, which advertise their availability to maintain it and fix bugs with guaranteed response time, in exchange for a fee payable by those companies, for which correct functioning of the module is critical. --- Omer On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 12:31 +0200, Ronen Angluster wrote: > well, there 2 main issues: > 1. legal > big corporates have difficulty handling the open-source type of > licenses. > and since any legal issue can end up costing millions in fees or court > issued > penalties. the company tend to frown upon using such tools. > 2. stability > some common CPAN modules are not very reliable. > for example: threads. although it is great and i love using it, there > is almost > no support, and we encountered bugs that due to schedule issues forced > us to > abandon threads all together and develop solutions using other > mechanism (fork for example) > > > as an open source developer, i use perl and CPAN modules as much as > possible. i love it. > it gives me great flexibility and saves me a lot of coding time. > however, from the corporate > point of view. this is horrible. -- Never let beliefs, God or Gods incite war and hatred among human beings. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
