Hi Volker, Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014 15:28:38 UTC+1 schrieb Volker Braun: > > On Thursday, November 27, 2014 2:10:59 PM UTC, Simon King wrote: >> >> AFAIK the relativism only (or at least: mainly) holds for native >> speakers. So, >> you have not answered to my argument that using a Lingua Franca is >> absolutely no reason to adopt organisational principles that seem >> fashionable to native speakers of that language. > > > That is precisely my point, you see no reason because you are a native > German speaker >
Wrong. Even as a native English speaker, I think I would be able to understand that the conclusion "English language => adopting certain organisational principles without being susceptible for stalinism" is incorrect. > Again, thats not necessarily good or bad. What matters is what will be > understood by most, and at least the vote gives you one data point. > That's fine, as long as you are just trying to explain the outcome of the vote to me (no need to do so, I fully understand the influence of personal experiences and cultural background on the voting). However, if you claim that the fact that a majority of Sage devs is English native speakers implies that there will be no strong minority abusing a code of conduct in a stalinistic way, then I am rather not convinced. Cheers, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
