[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

David House <dmhouse at gmail.com> writes:
> If I'm honest, I'm really surprised so many people have replied in
> favour of the restriction. I've stated an explicit way in which it's
> hurting the community, and the only person to say anything in the
> policy's defence other that "well, why not?" has been Ross (and I hope
> I dealt with the flaky arguments he linked to in my reply).

And yet at times (and I would think that this is one of those times)
"well, why not?" _can_ be a valid argument.  I am frankly amazed that
"why should I use my real name" is a valid attack on the policy.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com