<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1jkdfcglr59lwnhek94l393g0hhhaj0v5yzz3n5s3p0r9u0576sgs7373ck</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1jkdfcglr59lwnhek94l393g0hhhaj0v5yzz3n5s3p0r9u0576sgs7373ck</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-25&#xA;📝 Original message:On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Milly Bitcoin &lt;milly at bitcoins.info&gt;&#xA;wrote:&#xA;&lt;snip&gt;&#xA;&gt; Also, the incentive for new&#xA;&gt; developers to come in is that they will be paid by companies who want to&#xA;&gt; influence the code and this should be considered&#xA;&lt;snip&gt;&#xA;&gt; Now you are left with a broken, unwritten/unspoken process.&#xA;&#xA;Your former statement is a great example of why &#34;rough consensus and&#xA;running code&#34; is superior to design by committee.&#xA;An argument should be assessed on its technical merit alone, not on&#xA;the number of people advancing it -- a process that would be open to&#xA;exactly the type of external manipulation you say you are concerned&#xA;about.</html></oembed>