Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)

From: Sérgio Augusto Vianna <sergio.a.vianna@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2020, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <8f9193aa-43bf-2ad3-d067-6330385e1788@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAwdEzDgJuoQJAZsrT0piuZPVP6nJTSB9RCbcuXO03-BYTnmOQ@mail.gmail.com>

 >But the people that contribute to the code and to an open-source 
project are the owner of that project so they get to get the calls.

Ignoring everyone else's opinions and needs and just exerting your authority is the very definition of authoritarianism. Yes, they do have the right. But if they ignore the users, they can just use a fork that does what they want. Have anyone considered that a breaking change in git might very well result in a fork?

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