{"id":87,"date":"2003-02-02T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-03T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=226"},"modified":"2003-02-02T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-03T00:49:00","slug":"simon-st-laurent-on-civility-and-alienation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/02\/simon-st-laurent-on-civility-and-alienation\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon St. Laurent on Civility and Alienation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advogato.org\/person\/simonstl\/diary.html?start=44\">Simon responds<\/a> to my\ncomment about ERH&#8217;s message;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nDoes that alienate people? Yes! It should. I&#8217;d love to get the Web Services folks to rethink their foundations. Failing that, making clear that there are serious points of friction seems like the best course of action &#8211; and being civil has little to contribute to that. Forking is not a risk here &#8211; it&#8217;s an opportunity.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>We&#8217;re in complete agreement about that.  Where we may differ, is about\nthe timing; I think the time for alienation has passed.  I&#8217;ve personally been doing\nit for over three years now, and have alienated my fair share of bright and well respected\npeople (which has come back to haunt me during my search for work, sigh .. but such is\nthe price of grokking this stuff).  I believe the time is right &#8211; or at least fast\napproaching &#8211; to take advantage of the increasing frustration being felt by some Web services\ndevelopers who have realized that there may be something to this other way of doing things\nthat they&#8217;ve heard about.<\/p>\n\n<p>But, I could be wrong, which would be fine by me; it&#8217;s a lot less work to alienate. 8-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon responds to my comment about ERH&#8217;s message; Does that alienate people? Yes! It should. I&#8217;d love to get the Web Services folks to rethink their foundations. Failing that, making clear that there are serious points of friction seems like the best course of action &#8211; and being civil has little to contribute to that. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}