On 11/11/19 1:44 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:48:03 +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
Having 5-50 votes saying unsure / I abstain / whatever other thing you wanted to say wouldn't have made any difference to the way the board interprets the result.
It would make a difference to those of us voting that we are abstaining.
As many people didn't vote as voted no.
A similar number of people voted in this vote as previous board elections so it would be reasonable to presume that a significant percentage of the people that didn't vote either don't like voting or are inactive.
If more people had voted "present" than had voted "yes", that would tell everyone something about the vote.
Fortunately in this case most people we expected to vote did if 100-150 less people voted then I think that would tell us something.
But instead, nobody was interested in listening to those of us making that point, so more than a couple of us simply DID NOT VOTE because our concerns were not addressed.
Not voting is a perfectly valid choice.
And now we're being told that our vote wouldn't have mattered - which is precisely the point.
I asked questions *repeatedly* and explained why the information provided (even after the wiki update) was insufficent for me to be able to decide on a yes/no vote here, because the name we would change to *matters* to me for making up my opinion.
If the proposed name was, I don't know, "GoatSe Linux", I'd vote emphatically NO, because that would be a stupid and offensive name.
If the proposed name was "Chameleon Linux" - I probably would have voted "yes".
But nobody cared enough to address that concern. So I didn't vote.
That is perfectly fair, I did mention somewhere on a list at some point that it would probably be advantagious for those keen on changing the name to put together a possible short list of possible options that didn't likely have domain / trademark issues as people may be more likely to support a name change if they saw something they liked. But no one took the initiative to do that. Personally I didn't because personally i'm in favor of keeping the current name if possible. Either way the result we have is that most people want to stick with openSUSE regardless of the alternatives that may have been proposed so now we can stop thinking about changing the name and move to trying our best to come up with a solution for the foundation that means it has access to the name as needed. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B