Damian Conway Sponsored

Use Perl is reporting that Damian Conway has been sponsored by several companies and individuals (most impressively Black Star who donated half of the needed $55k). Now Damian can continue working on amazing perl projects like Quantum::Superpositions and Lingua::Romana::Perligata for the next year! Malicose noted that Damian sponsor page explains a bit more too.

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Re:27K isnt that much at all...puhlease

[Lion-O]

Believe it or not but this is how its done in most cases. If you take a closer look at history (more and more people should do that IMHO) you will see that a lot of great inventions were started by a group of people who were trying something knowing where they wanted to go yet could not focus on it. It takes money, a lot of money but it will gain you enormous expertise on the subject and, if the people working on it are really motivated and all, will get great results.

Heck, even multinationals as Phillips had such research teams. Basicly they gave people a lab. with the resources to "go their way". The result? Well, one of them was the CD player as we know it today. And what to think of MS ? Even seen the programmers there getting all the room they want to go their own way?

Sadly these tactics aren't possible in most cases due to the enourmas raise of wages and all (not every person qualifies for this setup, a lot will abuse their freedom). A bad thing since tactics like this will eventually lead to true innovation.