Quote from: DooMAD on June 29, 2015, 10:55:11 AM

Quote from: SebastianJu on June 29, 2015, 12:09:33 AM

Quote from: DooMAD on June 28, 2015, 11:24:07 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on June 28, 2015, 11:08:49 PM

All the fans download the client and thats it.

Supporters of a political party usually support that political party and that's it. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have elections.

Either use Bitcoin and trust the majority to do what they think is best, or use a closed-source coin and trust the developers to do what they think is best. Bitcoin is not closed source, but it sounds as though that's what you want, so those are your choices.

How do you get that idea? The total opposite is what i described. Or did i sound like a fan of bitcoin xt to you.

Im surely no fan of the ideas of hearn and gavin and their way of enforcing their will.

What you're describing is that you don't like individuals being able to release their own clients with modified code because apparently that's "enforcing their will". That makes it sound like you want a single team of developers to be in total control and those developers have to agree all the time. That's the definition of a closed source project. You can't have it both ways. Either anyone can release a client with whatever features they like and the users can then choose whether they run it or not, which is open source. Or, the developers are in total control and everyone runs the same client whether they like it or not, which is closed source. If you want open source, then you can't complain(*) about Gavin and Mike releasing their own client because they are perfectly entitled to do that, as is anyone else . If you want closed source, go use Ripple or some other centralised crapcoin. Again, those are your two choices.

(* well, you can complain, but it just sounds like you don't want people to be able to make their own choices)

Youre right, everyone is free to do what he wants. Though i would wish that the bitcoin blockchain and wallet development would work more like democracy. The head developer should agree to what the users want and implement that. Of course he is free to leave and behave as if bitcoin would die if we dont agree to what he wants now, instantly.

So no, i dont want closed source. I would only want that the development follows what the user wants. Ok, you might say users chose by chosing their wallet, but im not yet convinced that this behaviour might not lead to damage to bitcoin. It would be better to go the democratic way from the start. Then the current situation would not have happened.