Making them use a name other than python is hardly any great hardship. Mozilla maintains their trademark too and nobody whines to hard about that. Just call it "boa" or something. Firefox->Icecat.
> Making them use a name other than python is hardly any great hardship.
It wasn't. (And Tauthon is arguably a really cool name.)
But it does indicate that they want Python 2 dead.
> Van Rossum argued instead that if the Twisted team wants the ecosystem to evolve, they should stop supporting older Python versions and force users to upgrade. Brown acknowledged this point, but said half of Twisted users are still on Python 2 and it is difficult to abandon them.
Like I said, if people were just fading out of Python 2 that wouldn't make me call them arrogant, it's when they insist that other people have to ditch Python 2 that I start to feel like there's some arrogance there.
Like I said in a another comment, the only thing you get from switching to Python 3 is Python 3 compatibility. If Python 2 remains viable (which it will) there's much less incentive to use 3.
Python 2 isn't broken or bad or anything, it's just not Python 3. We aren't being urged to switch because 2 is (so much) worse than 3 but because it's a viable competitor to it.
Okay, but then what do they get by avoiding brand dilution?
Look, I'm not really interested in proving that so-and-so is arrogant or not.
It's pretty clear to me that some people have some animosity to continued use of Python 2, and I find some of the language and attitudes smack of arrogance. I'm arrogant, and it takes one to know one, eh?
But I don't have a magic arrogance-o-meter so really what are we arguing about? Our feels?
