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- Subject: Re: Proposal: Proposals are the wrong approach [prose and long]
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 16:05:54 +0200
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason, if you say that during the discussion of an actual
> what-if (lately people have become sensitive on the tag "proposal"),
> the OP gets even more huffish than if you dismiss the idea as "sugar"
> or "bikeshedding".
That is puzzling. Because it really is a great freedom. If you wish
others to play, then the minimum requirement is a patch against a Lua
version. People aren't averse to binaries, either, especially on
consumer OS machines (which increasingly also means OS X)
Perhaps the idea that the what-if isn't so crucial feels insulting?
Well, de gustibus non disputandum, but by the same token others may
not feel the urgency.