On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:38 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote: ..
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.
Interesting, my simple question regarding replies to the mailing list has grown into this discussion. I respect the owner/maintainers of this list as is, but disagree that democracy plays any role here. That said: it's their prerogative to decide that certain options are added or removed. In fact, they can decide by themselves to disband the whole mailing list altogether. I do, however, protest against the above notion that the Linux community in general is not democratic. Not that it is not true, but to only mention Linux - or better the OSS community - is not fair. Is there a manufacture who does otherwise? Of course not. It's all about products, brain child's and ego's. What else is new. Frans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org