At 04:22 PM 8/2/00 +0900, Simon Cozens wrote:
>But even on purely selfish grounds,
>that's a very dumb idea - walking away from a community and forking its
>project is a really good way to get yourself hated, fast. (Ask Theo DeRaadt
>some time...)
I'll point out here that I, for one, don't mind people deciding to head out
and do a port/reimplement/rewrite on their own. I won't promise that your
work (whoever you are in that sentence) will go into the 'official' perl
implementation, though I won't nick code from anyone without permission.
(Ideas, yes, but code, no)
This is software, and fundamentally unimportant. (I have kids--they give a
certain sense of perspective, though that could just be the sleep
deprivation... :) I want to build the best perl I can, though that doesn't
mean that I'm the best person to build perl. I really don't have my ego
wrapped up in it, and I'd hope that other folks feel the same about it.
>If they won't listen, that's a different story.
>But I trust Larry, I trust Dan, I trust Skud and I trust Nat to listen.
I do appreciate that.
Dan
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