<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1ts9hljj3l4yrpdxelpqdup3l46lw40fmkhw3rr0feh6s5ml247vqerfl5y</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1ts9hljj3l4yrpdxelpqdup3l46lw40fmkhw3rr0feh6s5ml247vqerfl5y</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-18&#xA;📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----&#xA;Hash: SHA512&#xA;&#xA;On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:&#xA;&gt; On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan &lt;laanwj at gmail.com&gt;&#xA;&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &gt; Like in any open source project there is lots of decision making ability&#xA;&gt; &gt; for code changes. I&#39;d say look at the changelog for e.g. 0.11&#xA;&gt; &gt; https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.11/doc/release-notes.md#0110-change-log,&#xA;&gt; &gt; or follow pull requests for a while, to see how many decisions about&#xA;&gt; &gt; changes are made from day to day. No, I&#39;m not sitting on my hands, and so&#xA;&gt; &gt; is none of the other contributors that you&#39;d like to get rid of.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; The analogy goes further even. Even though I disagree with some of the&#xA;&gt; changes you&#39;re making, I respect Mike&#39;s (and anyone&#39;s) right to make a fork&#xA;&gt; of Bitcoin Core. That&#39;s how open source works: if people disagree with&#xA;&gt; changes made or not made, they can maintain their own version. However:&#xA;&#xA;Sure. According to github, there exist 4890 forks of the bitcoin/bitcoin repository.&#xA;&#xA;Forking the code is perfectly fine in itself, that doesn&#39;t even need to be said, it&#39;s how open source works. Make your changes, run your own version, contribute back the changes (or not).&#xA;&#xA;And I never had a problem with Bitcoin-XT while it was just a patch-set with no consensus changes. But a controversial hard fork of the chain is something else completely.&#xA;&#xA;Wladimir&#xA;-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;Version: GnuPG v1&#xA;&#xA;iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVgr5LAAoJEHSBCwEjRsmm5mMH/0yLGGQQefRVdmM/nJZ60b/z&#xA;iTCUUzY4eLL67FRC6pqGA18RdUt4Etl4wEqvgXH/B9mWIAM2yQD/jnxutYrEIoBT&#xA;8Jyd1OhmmKF8MN5/uE7JNPivIuHs0ioF+qTxlbdElpVZ2NodVotznbTvuqJgXUFb&#xA;c9Et5L5n7g55uPzDt+MSV5iBDJaMiBAnZA00aTLGmYmNXxcy7xBwCFX3dDij8krv&#xA;0+zdpNNAKm85k1rG2jHCM+0onu+TOIur03pPd5OZktgr18P6UvAQ6A59yAkGgFai&#xA;4l6VVNJ40g3PzItGQ7wsKZ8s/qG5LlcEppxMlG6CX1dIDpxbrwx2aJmeNjwSLKQ=&#xA;=LbA3&#xA;-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</html></oembed>