Depends on what you mean by "Republic".
If you mean
- Democratic development of the core language: no.
That seems to be an oligarchy. Or a benevolent dictatorship.
But still ... if enough people would think, the
leader (group) is going nuts or inefficient, there
might be a revolution. Look at what's happened to gcc:
the original line got "officially" replaced by the
egcs line of development.
- Democratic development of the library: sometimes
yes, sometimes no. Much more competition there, you
often have the right to choose.
- Your right to choose, to hack and to share
applications/scripts/whatever:
yeeees! :-)) Definetly!
Your call :-)
Have fun ...
Andreas
