On 3/20/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:04 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > Instead, Fedora has a leadership system, which is widely being ignored > > by the public, unless it interferes with individual contributor > > interests. > > Isn't that basically how governments work? Temporarily yes. History tells, in longer terms such governments inevitably will die. In democratic systems, they sooner or later will be replaced, in absolutist systems these governments will sooner or later be chased or die lonesome.
Is this the "pure anarchy is the only true freedom!" argument? This seems to be resolved usually by the "I have the biggest rock, do what I say".. and then a 'government' occurs as people realize that if they all join their rocks together they can stop the guy bullying around.
> The *real* question: when the Fedora leadership (government) You are missing an essential detail: Governments must have control over a "people". OpenSource projects however are based on "mutually sharing interests", with nobody having control over anybody. If you try to pressurize people they will simply leave the government alone.
Governments exist because people biologically can't get along and will try to solve/take/get things via violence. That governments succumb to this is because they are made of people and thus imperfect. The only long-term solution is paving over the earth, and mass extermination of all biological entities to make sure that intelligence never accidently appears again. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
