for the millionth time, nobody knows if it is fake or not.
Then let's assume it's fake, ok?
It just is neither fake nor legit. But whatever makes you feel good.
And either way, the message was quite spot on.
He is not saying you should accept that it's fake. He's saying we have to move forward as if it was fake.
And no. It's not spot on. It's self-contradictory.
If you want some satoshi fodder you might want to go and look at the old bct forum discussions where he and Gavin discusses the idea of a plurality of implementations.
did someone say satoshi fodder?
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.
He wanted to remove the 1MB blocksize limit by March 2011
If you (hdbuck) are going to argue through authority (illegit anyways), at least do it with some honesty.