On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 02:45 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > 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. Well, if you have 1 sig dig - it is possible for 2+2=5 (large values of 2) ;) Pure democracy isn't necessarily the best thing even for nations - tyranny of the masses. I think a mixture is a good thing, some appointed members and some elected. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
