Making Squeak more accessible and used - reversing the trend

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Tue Feb 6 08:08:54 UTC 2007


Brad Fuller wrote:
>  Thus, it
> arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, his
> opponents do so with the zeal of partisans, the others only defend him
> half-heartedly, so that between them he runs great danger."
> 
> 1513 AD Machiavelli

this is very true of any truggle for power, like in politics, economy, 
and war.

but I fail to see any need for such struggle in computer science. Squeak 
is an open source project and as such does not have to fight anything. 
if we just make it as good as we can, according to our own elitist and 
knowledgeable idea of "good", then that is enough.

I do not see the point in having anyone to convince, nor any fight to 
figh, nor any product to sell. let's just be free of struggle, 
intelligent and creative. let's just build a beautiful piece of 
software, end even if it takes 50 years for its quality to be somewhat 
largely recognized (as it happens to Lisp nowadays), well what is the 
problem ?


Stef





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