most of you (at least the ones who have gone public) have driven me to charge for a debugging tool that every Perl programmer would otherwise use, rather than make it a module or freeware. ...
it's always important to let others decide what's good for you.
No it isn't...
So, what you're saying is "I march to the beat of my own drummer" and "the Perl community forced me to do something against my wishes". I'd be interested to know what a bunch of people that you've probably never met did to "force" you to charge for something that you want to give away.