Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2088 mails)

["Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, February 11, 2009 01:51, Richard Creighton wrote:

> Seeing as a 'vote was taken', the inference is that this list is a
> democratic entity of some sort.   That being the case and given that
> democratic entities periodically resubmit the issues and leadership to the
> constituants/voters for evaluation/reevaluation (otherwise countries like
> the US would still have George Bush as President...or Jimmy Carter...or
> Nixon perhaps) because issues and circumstances change and confirmation
> and adjustments to proceedure and law often need to be made accordingly.
> Just because something was voted on and passed by the 13 original colonies
> (in the US for example) and the people living/voting at that time made a
> choice, that doesn't mean that the rest of the newly added states and the
> new voters shouldn't have a say in their laws and leaders now.
> (Substitute your own countries history as appropriate).   Linux and SuSE
> has grown and new users and new programs have appeared since that original
> vote.

It is exactly because of that reason, that I disagree with the opinion
that this mailing list (and the Linux community in general) is a
democracy.
It is not!
The second hit on Google for "benevolent dictator" is the Wikipedia entry
on Benevolent Dictator For Life:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life

You guys should really read a bit about hacker culture. In the original
meaning of the word hacker.

-- 
Amedee

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