[dlang.org] Let's talk about the logo

Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 22 23:59:45 PST 2016


On Saturday, 23 January 2016 at 01:23:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> This is not the governance of a country. If you don't like the 
> way the decisions are being made, you always have the freedom 
> to take the source code (except for the proprietary backend), 
> fork it, and build your own community. There will be no army 
> sent after you to force you to comply with the "dictator's" 
> decisions, since this is a programming language, not a 
> government.  If your technical merit is superior, your 
> community will eventually prevail.
>
> And besides, calling something a "dictatorship" is again 
> confusing the development of a programming language with 
> running a government. I still fail to see the connection 
> between the two.
>
> (And BTW, I do not speak for this community either. What I 
> express here are just my own opinions. If you really have an 
> issue with how things are run, you ought to be talking directly 
> to Walter & Andrei, not wasting your breath arguing with me.)

+1 many times over.

And back to the original topic, my vote goes for the third one.


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