Jim Henderson wrote:
As I've watched this discussion unfold, fold, refold, and be multilated multiple times, it's occurred to me on more than one occasion that the guiding principles are something that many people seem to agree to in order to become a member, but they don't actually follow them.
I would have to go and read up on them, but for now, they're only _guiding_ me.
One of the decisions that I think the current members and the board need to consider is whether or not that requirement (assuming I'm remembering correctly) makes sense, and if it does, then following them does become a criteria for whether or not someone remains a member.
Let's not get into that, please. The openSUSE community is (or hopes to be) far too widespread for any hard and fast rules to be of much use.
If someone who is a member constantly violates the guiding principles, then that says to me that the only reason they agreed to them was to become a member, and not because they actually think there's any meaning.
IMHO, the reason they're guiding principles is that very few people or organisations, if any, are arrogant/stupid enough to attempt to lay down hard and fast rules that apply to the entire world. The EU tries to work with 27 different countries/cultures, and is having trouble with that. There are others - the ICC and such, but despite an awful lot of effort, they're struggling.
But if there's no meaning to agreeing to those principles, then why have them?
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