Hello webwarrior, Most of your claims are correct, and you could be the best coder but there *is* a trust factor. And part of such trust is built by making life easier to the core team. Maybe the pharo team could implement "closed verification" for cases like yours?
Now how do we trust you do not want to corrupt the behavior of the critical code base? Do you have inner source? Hernán 2015-12-07 20:47 GMT-03:00 webwarrior <[email protected]>: > Considering that there are a couple of responses and the fact that you > guys are so easily offended, I will not answer everyone but just state > couple of theses. > > > 0. I will not reveal my real name, because I value privacy. Nickname is > sufficient for identification purposes. Any other information (real > name, address, etc.) is not needed for actually contributing code. Think > of principle of least privilege. > > 1. I could easily make up some human-looking name (Satoshi Nakamoto > anyone?), but will not do it out of principle (see #0). > > 2. Knowing contributor's "real" name would not guard you against any > possible malicious actions from him, because it can't be verified (see > #1). One can also make up address, and even signature, if needed, and I > bet no one would spot it. > > 3. I don't buy argument about requirements of some organizations. Linux > kernel is used in billions of devices and by countless organizations, > and I highly doubt that contributing to Linux requires anything like > singing an agreement or whatever. > > 4. Even in paid services checking a checkbox is usually sufficient for > accepting any license/ToS. > > 5. My intentions are mostly of pragmatic nature. To make things that I > use (and that can be useful to Pharo users) be in upstream. > > 6. I don't care whether you drink beer, your political views, or your > interpersonal relationships (however story with Benjamin shows that > perhaps everything's not as great as you paint it). These are all > irrelevant to Pharo development, from my point of view at least. > > 7. If you don't agree with my arguments and stick to your rules, go for > it. I'm in no position to tell you what's the right thing to do. I'll > just end this discussion and leave. > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Re: License agreement - are you kidding me? > <http://forum.world.st/License-agreement-are-you-kidding-me-tp4865853p4865912.html> > > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive > <http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html> at > Nabble.com. >
