It's been ages since I coded anything in Perl (thank $DEITY) but via Reddit I found this gem today. It turns out that a simple bless call (!) will basically throw your code out to pasture. Big time.
A bless call.
RedHat's response? Absolutely precious:
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Now, let's be fair here. This problem is not Perl, and it only occurs in RedHat-based distros - namely RHEL, CentOS (which I use extensively) and Fedora (my current Linux desktop).
I'm posting this solely because when I read it, I immediately thought what the reaction would be if something like that happened with .NET on Server 2003. Oh. My. God. But this is Free Software (TM), so it's no big deal. Not like you're going to see it splattered on the front page of Slashdot or Digg (to reddit's credit, it's already there).
I love FOSS. I use it every day. I love Python and vim and Firefox and Linux and so on. I really do. The more I see the value in it though, the more I am struck by the infantile double standards and FUD campaigns waged in its name by undeserving retards and armchair zealots.
And BTW, I can confirm that the test script in that Bugzilla thread runs just fine on Server 2003 R2 SP1/ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003. Which is of course unpossible, since that's Windoze, lol.