[Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Fri Jul 2 19:04:32 CEST 2010


Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
>> This is not a democracy, we have a list moderator that steers these
>> things and keeps the spam away.
> 
> I thought Free Pascal is open source. Such an arrogant attitude will not
> help to promote Free Pascal very much. An "go away if you don't like it"
> is not the spirit of enthusiastical Pascal
> programmers/developers/whatever. It seems that sooner or later a split
> of the (free) Pascal community will happen because not all are willing
> to subordinate under such an arrogant leadership.

The less people can spam on mailing lists, the more they can code. Since
experience showed that code contribuitions is usually reciprocally
proportional to the generated mailing list noise by a person, moderation
is often a good thing.




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