On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 9:08:40 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > You're talking about a very serious matter between two legal entities > - if someone was *fired* because of social, technological, or other > problems with Python, that has implications that could matter in a > court of law. So I put it right back to you: What gives you the right > to speak against Guido and Google?
I'm not speaking *AGAINST* anyone, i'm merely trying to understand what happened. And unless there was some sort of explicit contract, Google could fire *ANYONE* for *ANY* reason -- this is not France, Chris! > And Michael's right: people move around for all sorts of reasons. > Doesn't necessarily mean anything about the previous job. Of course. But when you leave things open for speculation, you enviably create a situation where rumors can start circulating. GvR is not just any "John Doe" engineer, no, he's the head of an open source community, and the community has a right to be concerned about the livelihood and well being of their leader. Not because we need something to gossip about whilst watching reruns of Monty Python, but because we need to know if Python is going to be viable into the foreseeable future. More specifically, we need to know if we're writing code in a language that is heading back to the obscurity from wench it came. We have a *RIGHT* to be worried Chris, because our livelihoods are directly dependent on Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
