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Ok, it would be like if Redhat employed 90% of the Linux kernel team and didn't allow any patches for supporting systems with over 8GB of memory. Then they cam
by pmorici 11y ago
Ok, it would be like if Redhat employed 90% of the Linux kernel team and didn't allow any patches for supporting systems with over 8GB of memory. Then they came out with a proprietary software package you could install on your vanilla Linux kernel to enable big memory support.
- kanzure 11y ago> didn't allow any patches for supporting systems with over 8GB of memory The Bitcoin Core developers are incapable of coercing other users into not applying non-Bitcoin-compatible 8 GB block size limit rules. Also they don't want to apply that patch themselves, anyway, since they believe it is incompatible with what they understand to their best knowledge to be the goals and properties of Bitcoin. (Thankfully their goals also include lots of adoption, and they seem to have some proposals for how to achieve this even in the absence of 8 GB block sizes.) Linux is not a decentralized distributed consensus rule system, so unfortunately I don't think the comparison is useful.