David House wrote: > An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring > real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's > wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was > turned down, as he refused to offer his real name for the username.
It appears to me that it's generally a good idea to adopt a pseudonym that looks like a real name anyway. The main benefit is that no one will notice that it's a pseudonym, thus avoiding such complications. Ivan Miljenovic wrote: > I would wonder _why_ anyone would refuse to do so. Are they that > ashamed of their own software that they wouldn't want to be associated > with it, or is there some legal reason that they don't want to be > associated with it? I'm sure they have their reasons, and who am I to judge them. Most likely, it's about googleability. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe