Perl To Be Loved To "Death" By Microsoft?

Perl is an open source language used in server operations, mainly on UNIX servers. Microsoft has hired a firm to take the open source code and "improve" it for Windows according to this NEWS.COM article. Some worry that Microsoft's action (termed "embrace and extend") will undermine the open source (free) nature of Perl. Would Microsoft do that? Let's see, there's Microsoft's version of Java and .... [Dana Baggett]