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September 21, 2011, 10:09:11 PM |
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Some of y'all are fuq'n crazy, confict of intrest, yay right. Where Gavin works is none of you concern. And if it is, you have no right to know what Gavin does with his time. What, are you some fascist possing as a free market anarcist? Those of you who have tarnished Gavin's reputation should be ashamed of your selfs. Go ahead, push Gavin. Show him that his work is not appreciated. Then he leaves the bitcoin community because of its politics. Where would that leave bitcoin with no lead developer with the knowledge level that Gavin has? One thing would be for sure, development would slow.
Think about it. If Gavin's taste sours to bitcoin and sweetens to trucoin then where do you think he will spend his time developing? Where would you? If it were me, I would slow my development of bitcoin and see who steps up as the next possible lead developer. If the community pushed hard enough I would just stop developing. Why work for free and get treated like shit when you can work for pay and get treated as if you are appreciated?
If people follow Gavin to trucoin good for them. But this would be a big signal for those with a thinking mind. It would signal that the 'Xcoin' phenomenon is in part based on the talent behind the dominate system. Gavin sees this and so does trucoin and the thinkers in the bitcoin community. This leads to the possible conculsion that Gavin starts his own 'Xcoin'.
The community as a whole has made more money trading btc than Gavin has. It was much of his work that has lead to where bitcoin is today. From development to public speaking. I dont know about you but I hate public speaking. Gavin has given magnitudes more to the bitcoin community than the community has to Gavin. And now that Gavin asks from the community to glance at some text, they are so greedy they make up some unknown to now perceived community infraction to tarnish and start an accusatory witch hunt.
There is to be one set of rules and it is applied to all members of the bitcoin community in the same way. If these rules are not written down anywhere and then are used to tarnish a member, let alone senior member, then that is unjust. Dare I say fascist? The messure of an issue should not have some arbitrary line moved each time an issue occures. Without written community rules no one can have merits accusing another of an infraction against the community. Attempting to do so shows that one is more interested in control than the proclaimed fairness.
Gavin has the right to put what ever he likes in his signature. I for one think that there are only two people in the bitcoin community that have earned the right to wisely choose their signature and Gavin is one of those people. There should not be a separate standard for developers that restricts them. The developers have earned the right if anything, to have less restrictions. To tell developers that we trust your decisions enough to make a system that makes us money but we dont trust your decision for a forum signature is offensive. The affect will be to stifle developer talent. Lets face it, without talented developers bitcoin will wither on the vine.
Lets look the loudest voices against Gavin. Those are users (community leaches?) that are so greedy that just the appearance of the name of another 'Xcoin' sends them into self preservation and fuq the world as long as they 'get theirs'. Contrast that to the developer who spends 100s if not 1000s of hours developing and in some cases community development and out reach.
Gavin, you have the moral duty to rectify this unjust act portrayed upon you, put back the signature containing trucoin. Doing so would show your leadership and prevent a precedent from occuring. If the backlash from the community is harsh, then step back from your volunteer work on bitcoin for a 6-8 months and let the community cool off. It will give those that decent a chance to step up and show that their not just 'hot air'(flatulence).
Those that have the power to correct this unjust tarnishment of Gavin's reputation should show their leadership. Let's not forget precedent was set when this forum allowed conversation of other 'Xcoins' to occure.
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