[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

[Ivan Miljenovic]

On 5 April 2010 07:28, David House <dmhouse at gmail.com> wrote:
> An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring
> real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's
> wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was
> turned down, as he refused to offer his real name for the username.

I would wonder _why_ anyone would refuse to do so.  Are they that
ashamed of their own software that they wouldn't want to be associated
with it, or is there some legal reason that they don't want to be
associated with it?

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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