On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote:
> First of all, saying "I would fork node" is just an absurdly dated > thing to even say as if it's meaningful. There are 2,452 forks of > node right now. It's silly to say that you WOULD fork node, if you > currently can, and haven't. (I'm getting a 404 from > https://github.com/douglascrockford/node.) > > I responded to this and a few other questions regarding Joyent and > Node here: > http://www.quora.com/Node-js/What-is-happening-to-Joyent-and-how-does-it-affect-NodeJS/answer/Isaac-Z-Schlueter > . > The bit that is relevant to this specific topic: > > >>> > > In May at HTML5 dev conference, Douglas Crockford said that he would > fork NodeJs because he does not trust Joyent. > > I emailed Douglas about this asking for more details. He and I are > former colleagues from my time at Yahoo. He claimed that "Joyent's" > management of Node is "amateurish". As I am the person at Joyent who > manages Node, I could not help but take this as a criticism of my own > work. > > To date, I have not received a reply. While I of course understand > that the time limits of a talk don't allow for deep discussions of > every subject, I was saddened by the vagueness of his comments, and > consider the lack of follow-up rather unprofessional. I have no idea > what he thinks is amateurish about how I'm running node. > >>> > > The fact of the matter is, none of us know what Crockford meant by > that comment, because he hasn't provided any further details, and > that's the end of it. > > As for the other issues, I'd rather not try to synchronize a > discussion across threads, as that can result in data corruption ;) > > Lol :P -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
