Comment by saghm
2 hours ago
I don't have any issue with what you're saying if that's what happened. There's quite a gap between that sort of reasoned explanation and treating concerns about large stakeholders versus large numbers of small one with derision.
For what it is worth, I was trying not to make a value judgment on it, especially not with relation to this specific instance, I was hopefully just recognizing it as a motivating factor in general open source politics. Sometimes that is quite regretful because it is anti-democratic and does look like favoritism or worse cronyism when it plays out in that way of "we listened to the person/company that built and tested a prototype and did all the work to standardize and then PR it over the many developers that wanted an idea but didn't have the time/money/bandwidth to implement it themselves".