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OK, I'm happy to hear you say that. It's definitely possible that I've made a totally spurious claim of a common cultural thread. I mean that sincerely: I didn'
by da39a3ee 6y ago
OK, I'm happy to hear you say that. It's definitely possible that I've made a totally spurious claim of a common cultural thread. I mean that sincerely: I didn't want what I was worrying about to be true and I'll remember that you say Mozilla's not like that. Thanks very much / respect for responding to this anonymous and rather odd/unfounded criticism.
- steveklabnik 6y agoIt’s not that Mozilla is or is not like that even; I don’t know why you’re including Mozilla in with Rust. The contents of the Rust book have nothing to do with Mozilla in any way.
- da39a3ee 6y agoAh, OK. I certainly had that wrong then. I had it in my head that the language was incubated at Mozilla and major efforts like documentation were funded by Mozilla / worked on by Mozilla employees.
- steveklabnik 6y agoThat can all be true at the same time what I am saying is true. A Mozilla employee can write something without the contents of the thing being dictated by Mozilla in some fashion.
- da39a3ee 6y agoWell, this is getting a bit philosophical but seeing as you don't mind discussing! What you say may be true of Mozilla, but it's not true in general, is it? I mean, suppose two authors work at the same "institution". I think it's bound up in our notion of institution that the observer of this situation might expect, or at least not be surprised if, their creative output is subject to shared influences. So, OK, the theory I was floating was dubious because of its lack of real justification! But I don't think its reliance on a notion of institutional culture (shared influences) was problematic.