Quote from: MicroGuy on May 30, 2015, 04:51:14 AM

"Today on the Sourceforge hosted Bitcoin-development mailing list Gavin Andresen has threatened to leave his present group of Bitcoin software developers over their objections to his demands for a rapid hardfork of the Bitcoin network.[...]"
Original post: http://qntra.net/2015/05/gavin-threatens-to-quit-bitcoin-development-and-join-hearns-fork/

Total spin. Gavin proposed a "let-the-market-decide" solution to the question of whether to fork or not.

Quote from: Vod on May 30, 2015, 04:57:37 AM

Such a move will only weaken Bitcoin's credibility in the eyes of the public. Undecided

I doubt that. The public (whoever that is) probably wouldn't even notice.
Big Business might actually be attracted by the pragmatic solutions the Bitcoin community can come up with when it comes to real-life problems like scalability. After all, they couldn't care less about the whole crypto-anarchist decentralized idealism. They just want that "blockchain technology stuff" to work.

Quote from: TinEye on May 30, 2015, 05:02:37 AM

So be prepared to get a lot of negative marketing from within the community itself, not just general public.

Possibly, but the community has already lost its power when it comes to whether Bitcoin will be a success or not.
VC is flowing, Big Business moving in.

Quote from: franky1 on May 30, 2015, 06:44:32 AM

it doesnt matter what fork gavin wants to manage.. all that counts is what fork mining pools work on..

Pools will want to make money. They're going to stick to whatever suits that goal best.

Quote from: LaudaM on May 30, 2015, 08:52:39 AM

This is only minor centralization. Someone has to actually code things, it can't magically work and repair itself. The project is open source; anyone can contribute hence the decentralization.

Absolutely. Someone's got to take the less popular decisive steps at times. And I'd rather have that someone be Gavin than someone else.

After all, that whole idea of Gavin is still well within the limits of the traditional Bitcoin spirit, churn out some changes, let the network decide.