Deposing Dictactors

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Thu Aug 16 18:56:10 EDT 2001


>> >I thought we all agreed and accepted that is not how things are 
>> >supposed to work for Python. And that its quite for the good.
>> 
>> I don't get what you're trying to say. 
>
>I think what he's saying is that your use of the plural (see above)
>implies a BOFL (benevolent oligarchy for life), rather than a BDFL.  A
>BOFL for life would be deplorable.

Perhaps, however this has little to do with what I'm talking about; while
I indeed referred to an aggregate, I was referring to the _individuals_
of that aggregate, each of which owes no obligation whatsoever to
fulfilling other people's sense of entitlement. And why should they?
They are open source developers generously donating their own
precious personal time. They should be working on what they regard
as fun, interesting, and personally rewarding. Satisfying the childish
whims of individuals who seriously mistread with the belief that they
can "depose" the core of an open-sourced project (is that delusional
or what?) should rightly be the least of their worries.

C//




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