David House wrote:
An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was turned down, as he refused to offer his real name for the username.
It appears to me that it's generally a good idea to adopt a pseudonym that looks like a real name anyway. The main benefit is that no one will notice that it's a pseudonym, thus avoiding such complications. Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
I would wonder _why_ anyone would refuse to do so. Are they that ashamed of their own software that they wouldn't want to be associated with it, or is there some legal reason that they don't want to be associated with it?
I'm sure they have their reasons, and who am I to judge them. Most likely, it's about googleability. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com