[r6rs-discuss] Boycott it! (was Re: r6rs-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1)

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 19:34:35 -0400

Thomas Lord scripsit:

> But, by no means: why usurp R6 for all of this? Why change
> the spirit of the report series in such drastic ways? It seems
> violence against the community. It seems the usurption of a
> brand-name that has already achieved its good place in history.
> It seems a fundamentally economic power grab where, formerly,
> the Rn series enjoyed a far more innocent place.

Quite so.

        "For why?--because the good old rule
        Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
        That they should take, who have the power,
        And they should keep who can."

I hold this to be a good thing in this case, however.

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