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Never look a gift horse in the mouth, as the saying goes.

SUSE owes $0 to Perl and Raku. Most companies donate $0.

I would assume they benefit from Perl code (not sure how much at this point in time), and want Perl to continue to be maintained, therefore, they benefit from this donation.

OBS (the build system running build.opensuse.org) has quite a bit of perl at its core.

OBS is a service that SUSE provides to the greater open source community free of charge for everyone’s benefit. It’s not a great example of greedy corporations taking more than they give back.

Just how much maintenance does the Perl interpreter realistically need in 2025.

Package hosting, security updates, gradual improvements after perl 7 didn't pan out (?), Raku is an ongoing language in continuing development, grants, events, etc

perl 5 specifically has had ~15 releases so far this year. (not counting release candidates)

it all costs time and or money

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