On 08/17/2010 12:34 AM, seth vidal wrote: > The ability to make sure the FPL doesn't go off the reservation? > > The ability to make sure that crazy people don't end up as FPL and cause > unmanageable havoc? It's not really that crazy to think of someone > unbalanced but perhaps charismatic getting elected. Lose the veto power entirely and you have much less of that risk. FESCo doesn't have a single person with a veto power and we are relying on a fully elected group and things are moving along just fine. If the board works on a consensus model just like now but without the veto power, would things really be that different? >> What would Red Hat lose by giving up on the veto power? The >> benefit to losing the power is that others vendors and the volunteer >> community would feel more in control. > Oh cmon... other vendors? Really? Others vendors are participating within Fedora already. Multi vendor open source communities are healthier than single vendor dominated ones. Rahul _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board