Comment by mschaef

> Having a right to do something is completely orthogonal to whether you should do that thing.

Yeah... there are really several conversations that could be had:

1. Rich deserves credit and respect for personally taking on a cost that ranges into the hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund Clojure. Very few people do this, and even fewer bring the taste and judgement Rich brought to Clojure.

2. Rich/Cognitect currently own the Clojure governance model and they can do with it what they want.

3. Maybe the current governance model isn't what's going to bring Clojure the next 20-30 years of viability.

My take on it essentially this:

1. Yes. I wouldn't/couldn't do it myself. (And I've started down the path at least once.)

2. Yup. Maybe it will be what the platform needs to grow and thrive. Maybe not. Maybe it will be attractive to users and developers. Maybe not.

3. At some point, this will probably be true. Given the history of companies and projects, this shouldn't be a surprise.