Quote from: sturle on September 30, 2012, 10:48:51 AM

Quote from: hazek on September 30, 2012, 10:06:19 AM

More restrictive rules can be malicious also. And Bitcoin Foundation being a self admitted self imposed spokesperson, policy setting, business vetting, intertwined with corporate interest body with enough money spent on PR will always get it their way with enough miners. Maybe not today but definitely in the future.

The danger exists now that's my point.

You are pulling your conspiracy theories a few miles to far now, don't you think? Why was the old model better, where a handful of unpaid, and to some degree unknown, developers had full control? Better than a member organization?

This is why:

Quote from: hazek on September 29, 2012, 08:29:05 PM

Quote from: jgarzik on September 29, 2012, 08:15:52 PM

Quote from: hazek on September 29, 2012, 02:53:10 PM

Up is down, left is right. That's all I hear. All check and balances that we needed, we had until 2 days ago.

Before: Gavin and other lead devs could have been funded by shady unknown, undisclosed -- or, more realistically, non-shady but unpredictable -- sources.

After: Gavin and other devs may be funded by known, disclosed, predictable sources.

Before: Gavin or who ever is lead dev had to personally defend his and his team's actions while the whole community was carefully monitoring what he did AND he was easily removable from his lead position

After: Gavin or who ever is lead dev can hide behind a corporation, a self admitted self imposed spokesperson, policy setting, business vetting, intertwined with corporate interest body that can shield him from any negative repercussions providing him with the excuse he was just executing their policy AND him now being a board member for the next two years and a founding member making him nearly impossible to be removed from his position

Who is paying Gavin is irrelevant, just as it is irrelevant who is Satoshi. What is relevant is who carries the responsibility to not misbehave and what kind of consequences can they face if they do.

I'm really scared by all your trickery you're employing in your PR posts.