Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 3, 2012 @01:08AM from the have-a-few-bucks dept.

mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source — a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of course, Perl. This is a successful enterprise giving something back to open source — which is how it should be."

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Re:Good on them by rudy_wayne · 2012-02-03 01:29 · Score: 5, Informative

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7399720.stm
"EBay acquired a 28.4% stake when it bought shares from a former employee who had been given equity by Mr Newmark.
A year after the deal was completed, eBay, which had said it wanted to learn from Craigslist, started Kijiji.com, a rival international network of classified ad sites that now sells ads in all 50 US states. "