Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.