Author: Luke-Jr Date: To: Benjamin Cordes CC: System undo crew Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] fuck the bitcoin core team
On Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:06:20 PM Benjamin Cordes wrote: > Are all contributions strictly composable?
No.
> People can add bad code, or good contributions can be a matter of priorities
> and design. It's not as if software is the output of a linear function, like
> building the pyramids brick by brick.
Bad code won't get accepted by peer review. Admittedly, there's a problem if
you can't find peers willing to review your code. The answer to that is to get
more people with common interests involved - or "trade" someone else with the
same problem.
> In what ways are "developers" accountable to "users"? In terms of the
> system surely miners are a very special kind of users of the system. Most
> users don't have the faintest idea about the network.
Not at all.
> How many people in the world have a deep knowledge of bitcoin?
Less than 50.
> What Mike Gogulski was pointing out is that beliefs matter. I would put it
> in different words, but I certainly support the idea that corporatism
> should have no place in bitcoin land. Clearly people who have worked for
> major US corporations are at least a little brainwashed.
There is obviously has quite a bit of "corporate brainwashing", but it's only
a problem if that affects merged code.