Re: Style proposal [Re: Coding style changes of 2009-06-26 now in the guidelines]

[Ingo Strüwing]

Hi Monty,

Michael Widenius, 22.10.2009 20:36:

...
> In democracy, there is many cases where weights are different.
> Democracy doesn't guarantee equality, only that everyone has a chance
> to have their voice heard.


Most democracies include a concept of "elections". Usually one human has
one vote.

...
> Then you also have 'ownership' of the code:
> 
> - People 'own' the code they have written.
> - You don't change other peoples code, without asking them permission.
> - Only when a person gives up his code, then someone else can take
>   over it.


I guess, your concept of "code ownership" is independent from copyright?
You say that the one, who wrote the code, keeps control over it, even if
he sells the copyright for a billion bucks?

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> Another way to see this is also that you should not force the people
> that produces the most code to code in a style they don't like.  That
> will just make these people less productive and over time do something
> else than produce code for that project.

But if the majority of developers suffers from this, the project isn't
in a good shape either.

Regards
Ingo
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