1 hour ago, chromedome said:Why, the usual confrontation of tradition vs. innovation, of course. What else?
I am not anti-innovation. As I said before, I pioneered poydextrose for the home baker. I pioneered steel plate for pizza. I'm as pro innovation, pro science as you can get. You can fall in love with a regional delicacy and have a desire to preserve it for future generations by clearly defining it while still pursuing progress. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Open source software authors get this. If you have what you believe to be an improvement in a piece of software, but the rest of the team isn't in agreement, you create a fork. The fork then stands as a separate entity, and succeeds or fails on it's own merits. Neither tradition nor innovation are integral to this process. It's just a matter of "this is something different, we're calling it something else.:"
