On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 12:48 +0200, Neil Thompson wrote: > I become less and less convinced every year that democracy works in the free > software world - you tend to end up with people who are so focussed on maintaining > their popularity that they can't make the hard decisions - either that or marketroids > who start impacting on the technical side of the project. Open source is not politics. Its software engineering. Its computer science. Its... science! And science has nothing to do with democracy. The truth, The Right Thing, is not a democracy. No amount of sitting around and voting is going to make 2+2=5 or make Windows not suck. There is a fundamental difference between an open source project and a nation. "Cyberspace" is effectively infinite. Physical space... isn't. One of the very cornerstones of open source is the ability to fork. However, forking a nation is next to impossible, as the overhead and resource contention is quite high. You'll have to swap out some other nations... The strongest open source projects tend to have a Benevolent Dictator for Life.
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