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Honestly, I'm very confused by all this. Don't like it, fork it no? Isn't that the whole point of open source? Any project needs to have a certain set of people
by didibus 7y ago
Honestly, I'm very confused by all this. Don't like it, fork it no? Isn't that the whole point of open source? Any project needs to have a certain set of people in charge of making actual decisions and working on those. You'll never have every single user be a part of that decision making. It wouldn't scale.
What language is not driven by a handful of decision maker? Even what could be argued to be committee driven languages, like say Java, are very much controlled by a handful of committee members.
- zzzcpan 7y agoIt's hard to trust a bunch of people employed by a megacorp to make all the decisions about the project you rely on. But easier to trust independent people, closer to the users, maybe even voted in by the users, like democracies do, not like top down only ruler's interests matter dictatorships.
- einpoklum 7y agoNo. Forking a language is very difficult from forking an application (which is itself a Herculean task if the app is big). And few end-users of a piece of software will switch to a fork with much less backing because of soft-power influence or governance model.