The amount of trolling in that thread is incredible. I don't understand why an average Joe needs to contradict Guido on trademark matters.
And no, I'm not exaggerating, you just need to look at the comments:
https://github.com/naftaliharris/placeholder/issues/47#issue...
I read through that thread the other day and it breaks my heart to know that there are people who think like that. Honestly.
On various occasions I've reasoned (and not reasoned) with the most absurd people, there is always some way to understand where the craziest of logic comes from. But here, I'm just sad.
And I'm especially sad because I've seen similar comments on HN (even just the other day). So really, this goes out to anyone who works in tech and feels like this either about Python or about any open source project: Treat your FOSS maintainers with some human decency.
It's not the first time I say it, and every time I say it there's always some people nodding at this; "oh yes, of course, well who acts like that really?", those same people turning around a week later, flaming Lennart Poettering for whatever software du jour the guy wrote.
sighs
The same could be said about politicians, too......although they are easy to ridicule. It makes it hard to get good leaders when no sane person would choose to endure all the abuse a political candidate gets.
This is the kind of thing where you are appealing to a legacy user base and there's no reason to get smirky about it. Something like Twothon, Bithon (not good for obv reasons), Zweithon, and so forth would much better communicate the intent of the project IMO.
(no direct relation to political parties intended)