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[04:31] schestowitz >> If it helps, it doesn't surprise me. Look where he worked in recent years.
[04:31] schestowitz >
[04:31] schestowitz > It doesn't surprise me either. Though it would help if while you're
[04:31] schestowitz > attacking Python (which is called for IMO) you were making the point a
[04:31] schestowitz > bit more often that PyPy is not like this.
[04:31] schestowitz >
[04:31] schestowitz > When people think of Python they think of the language, not the
[04:31] schestowitz > implementation or the foundation. The latter is the problem, the former
[04:31] schestowitz > is the victim. Ideally we would preserve the language (as many former
[04:31] schestowitz > target of colonialism do) and condemn the takeover and parties involved.
[04:31] schestowitz >
[04:31] schestowitz > Obviously I don't expect you to espouse any views you do not yourself
[04:31] schestowitz > hold-- rather I think you are a bit sympathetic, while your rhetoric is
[04:31] schestowitz > more one-sided about it than you are. It doesn't bother me that it's
[04:31] schestowitz > passionate and waves a finger-- I think it ought to.
[04:31] schestowitz >
[04:31] schestowitz > PyPy (which you rarely mention) deserves a bit better. It's not as if it
[04:31] schestowitz > needs equal time, but projects to preserve what was attacked/taken
[04:31] schestowitz > over/abandoned such as Mate, Trinity, PyPy never get much love from the
[04:31] schestowitz > community-- but they work so hard to preserve culture and offer choices.
[04:31] schestowitz > When rms started doing this it was to preserve a culture. But that's in
[04:31] schestowitz > very broad terms-- when other people work to preserve subcultures,
[04:31] schestowitz > everybody acts like they are just pushing obsolete tools. Free Software
[04:31] schestowitz > becomes more like Open Source all the time. Not a compliment.
[04:31] schestowitz I am not familiar enough with PyPy.
[04:31] schestowitz That is why I rarely mention it.
[04:33] schestowitz By all means prepare an article about this if you can. You know more than me about Python.
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