code cleanup in druntime and phobos

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 12:24:02 UTC, Nameless wrote:
>> It is nothing unique for GitHUb I can blame them for though - 
>> this is how absolute majority of web services is built these 
>> days and I don't see it changing without any government 
>> regulations. Does mean I must like it.
>
> Government control would just mean controlled by corruption. 
> The solution needs to be technological: a distributed github. I 
> have no idea how to do that but I'm sure it's possible. Until 
> something like that gets implemented, it seems to me that 
> "github or GO" (without the "TF" and with a rationale) is the 
> best option. It won't scale to force core contributors to 
> collect patches from services x, y and z.

Decentralized services on their own won't change anything here 
because they won't be able to compete with intrusive ones. 
Concept of ecosystem lock-in didn't become so popular because of 
some evil mastermind behind it - it is simply most efficient and 
advantageous commercial strategy if allowed. This is why I refer 
to government control - situation is not fundamentally different 
from old-school monopolies. It is similarly very effective 
approach you have no reason to not use as a corporation but very 
harmful for society as a whole in the long term -> regulated by 
the government. Of course monopoly regulations don't work that 
well either because of corruption but at least there is some 
expectation among masses about it. Ecosystem lock-in, quite the 
contrary, is viewed as totally legit and even good.