[paracelsus]

Nonsense. This is tantamount to saying that unless a person's ideas are widely accepted or he's rich he should shut up if his ideas are not popular. I don't think he cares much whether you use Qi or not.

He's linked the two essays because he sees there is a connection between funding and development and he's right.

[bayareaguy]

I suspect you too must have strong feelings on the subject of open source economics since you've clearly misunderstood and mischaracterized my point: airing these views doesn't help promote Qi so he shouldn't link them all together.

I'm not an expert on lisp or functional languages so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on the first two pages where he presents the design tradeoffs of Qi. Then on the next page instead of learning more about Qi, I find myself in the middle of an argument where his word choice confuses the distinction between free/unsupported open source and free/unencumbered open source. WTF? Didn't he just tell us on the previous page one of his strategies for Qi development was "3. Infiltrate don't confront".

And then I get to learn how he's decided to resign his job and become a wandering Taoist.