Re: RFC 354 (v1) A Trademark on Perl Should be Acquired in Larry Wall's Name

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:50:06AM -0500, David Grove wrote:
> I don't know it's affiliations

You know that word "independent"? Should have been a give-away, but...

> but I _seem_ to recall (such a "seem" that it's about 10% away from a guess)
> that it's "owned" by either the independent perl mongers groups or one
> particular one. (I haven't 

This is not true.

> What's to say (I'm building on a guess, here) that, if the Perl language was 
> put into the hands of a committee, corporate interests wouldn't begin buying 
> out its members, leaving Larry no control except as a figurehead with no 
> authority to put a halt on nonsense? 

ETOOPARANOID.

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