[r6rs-discuss] Boycott it! (was Re: r6rs-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1)

[John Cowan]

Thomas Lord scripsit:

> But, by no means: why usurp R6 for all of this?  Why change
> the spirit of the report series in such drastic ways?   It seems
> violence against the community.   It seems the usurption of a
> brand-name that has already achieved its good place in history.
> It seems a fundamentally economic power grab where, formerly,
> the Rn series enjoyed a far more innocent place.

Quite so.

	"For why?--because the good old rule
	Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
	That they should take, who have the power,
	And they should keep who can."

I hold this to be a good thing in this case, however.

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