Thoughts from 2013 (Outside the current emo-drama) ...
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/43677417318/economics-of-block-size-limitCan any members of the self appointed
Plutocratic
League for
Ending
Bitcoins
Servicability please provide references to any post of Satoshi's that emphatically states that the block size is intended to be a hard limit? ... annnnd don't do a cut and paste cherry pick, link it so we see it in context.
He put the limit in the source code.
It's up to you to find a quote of him suggesting it'd have to be removed.
It can be phased in, like:
if (blocknumber > 115000)
maxblocksize = largerlimit
It can start being in versions way ahead, so by the time it reaches that block number and goes into effect, the older versions that don't have it are already obsolete.
When we're near the cutoff block number, I can put an alert to old versions to make sure they know they have to upgrade.