From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T03:02:06+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

Hi --

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, James Gray wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:43 AM, David A. Black wrote:
>
>> Also, since something like github can arise and
>> change the landscape, simply by being there, I believe it's
>> fundamentally wrong to look at the whole thing as based on consensus.
>
> That's an interesting view and maybe you are right.
>
> I took it more to mean that the current system is less than ideal and all you 
> need to do is produce a significantly better application, which some think 
> github is, to capture some mindshare.

That's really what I mean by "something like github": a system that
some percentage of people like and therefore decide to use.


David

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