Any corporation that is savvy enough to even notice Perl will realise that its best left alone. Perl has run very well for years without outside influence. If a company even attempted to take ownership of the Perl mantle then the userbase would fight back.

To me this is the defining point. You can't really compare Netscape to Perl. The userbase already exists for Perl yet Netscape was trying to steal/maintain a userbase. Plus Perl is a language and not an end product like a browser. Commercial versions of Perl exist (such as Activestate) but they have a vested interest in making their products work like all other versions of Perl (GPL or otherwise) as the users won't even consider their work otherwise.

Comparing Netscape and Perl is like comparing the fight between Netscape and IE and the fight between (for example) Java and Perl. However it just doesn't work. No one programming language is right in all cases so trying to force that issue just won't happen.

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