Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2088 mails)

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

On Mon, February 2, 2009 15:04, Felix Miata wrote:

> > How many people voted? How well do they represent the current people on
> > the list?
>
> These are the pertinent questions. It's not so much the count as the
> representation. The casual subscribers, those who frequent friendlier
> lists
> and want it done the way most lists do it, would have been less likely to
> notice a pending vote announcement. OTOH, the militant regulars with their
> reply-to-list buttons would have been less likely to miss the opportunity
> to
> rubber stamp the general minority status quo.

What about the new militants that just came over from other lists (like
Debian)?
For the record: I would vote against munging, if I was forced to vote.
But on the other hand I am against democracy in software and related
projects.

> > When is the next election?
>
> Probably when hell freezes over.

Don't bring religion in technical discussions. Please.

> > IMHO there is no place for democracy in Software Libre - only benevolent
> > dictatorship.
>
> Democracy is tyranny of the majority. People in USA holler about it a lot,
> yet USA is a republic, which is not the same thing.

Who's talking about the USA? I live in a parliamentary democracy (Belgium).
Anyway you seem to agree with me that democracy is a bad thing for Free
Software.

-- 
Amedee

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