On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 14:09:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
With many freedoms come many responsibilities. The fact that
you can fork the syntax and no one sue you for it (or actively
try to stop you from doing it) does not mean that it won't harm
your public image and overall attitude from some of community
members
I think the D community manages to harm it's own public image by
not encouraging evolution and aiming for the insular cult image
and group think.
If you pick Boost as a license you open up for commercial closed
source use, maybe even encourage it. If you don't want someone to
evolve the language and tailor it to their own ends, then pick a
different license.
Forking a project only harms it if you create totally
incompatible spheres and split the current team of developers.
We add to the eco system. We don't detract from it.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe in design by democracy. It has
never lead to anything great. I do believe in evolution. D needs
evolution.
I think http://xkcd.com/1357/ fits the spirit here quite nicely.
I've never liked xkcd much and comics are not on topic, so I
can't be bothered to look at it unless you made it yourself.
