This is a shameful display of censorship and close mindedness of the Core developers. This just further proves that we need alternative implementations of Bitcoin so that important discussions and issues are not just censored and ignored.
To quote Mike Hearn from this discussion: i'm sorry but you cannot have a situation where there is only one implementation, where that implementation has one guy making the decisions, and then expect people to not engage in argument and debate about decisions being made or not made.
I agree with Mike Hearn on this point and he should not have been banned for saying this. It is completely unjustified and undeserved to ban him for saying this. Having one person deciding on changes within Bitcoin and having five more people with veto power over the development is an untenable position for Bitcoin especially if we want Bitcoin to be truly decentralized. Multiple competing implementations of Bitcoin is the solution to the political problems we are currently experiencing.
LOL, months later, you are still spewing this crap all over my screen.
He was banned (and likely temporarily) because, as usual, he is polluting the technical forum with his inane, political badgering. Wasting everyone's time and energy, constantly pushing ideas that no devs want a part of and endlessly crying that the reason for this is the governance structure -- it's not. It's because he is a cancer, and his ideas and code are horrible. The vast majority of miners, users, devs understand this; that you apparently do not is of little concern to anyone.
Go ahead and run your alternative implementation. Go ahead and fork off another. No one is stopping anyone from forking the code.
Understand that the vast majority of miners, users and devs will not touch or run shoddy code backed by horrible ideas. That is just a practical reality. It has nothing to do with this perceived "censorship" or "OMG there is only one implementation". It's simple: produce an alternative client that is worth running and developing and people will do so. XT was not that.