Can someone explain to me the moral objection to www?

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Gustaf Nilsson <[email protected]>wrote:

> I see your point, but refusing www. does nothing but make pyjamas less
> accessible to people. It is also not fixable with a bug patch.
>
> How about from now on all communication/documentation regarding
> pyjamas must be written in Esperanto because it is a language
> liberated from the ties to any particular potentially evil country?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Sebastian Hilbert
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Friday, February 03, 2012 09:49:57 AM Peter Bittner wrote:
> >
> >> 2012/2/2 Jeff Kunce <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> > to change anything against your principles will go nowhere.  Or, in
> your
> >
> >> > words, "it's not up for discussion: please just accept it."
> >
> >> > Just a statement of reality, not a call for change or discussion.
> >
> >>
> >
> >> I actually do like this benevolent dictatorship. Btw, there are
> >
> >> several other, mostly successful projects, that share Pyjamas' fate;
> >
> >> examples include the Linux kernel, and Python.
> >
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life
> >
> >>
> >
> >> Just to make it clear that not everyone dislikes Luke's stubborn
> >
> >> sticking to (his) principles. We've seen enough FOSS projects failing,
> >
> >> because there was no strong leadership. I take this as a strong point
> >
> >> of the Pyjamas project.
> >
> >
> >
> > Looking closely there is not even a dictatorship. Commit rights have been
> > given out more easily then in most projects.
> >
> >
> >
> > It is more a do-ocracy.
> >
> >
> >
> > One common misperception in FOSS seems to be that anyone coder needs
> formal
> > authorization to work on code or improve the website while all there is
> to
> > it is sending patches upstream.
> >
> >
> >
> > More often then not lengthy discussions lead to anything but code. If one
> > does not like the perceived leadership then just take over by being more
> > active, improving weak spots etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sebastian Hilbert
>
>
>
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