<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 18 Jan 2009, at 04:39, Mark Kretschmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><br>1)<br>I came up with the more complex voting system to bring a component of<br>meritocracy into the system. That was my intention. Whether my scheme<br>is suitable for this or not is another question.<br><br>2)<br>I do believe that democracy is an unsuitable model for FOSS<br>development. I currently see meritocracy as the most promising model.<br>Also I believe that there are merits to the "benevolent dictator"<br>model of e.g. Linux and Python. Whether we have such a person fit for<br>this position is another question.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Ok. For approximately the 10th time, i'm going to repeat again:</div><div><br></div><div>We are not a meritocracy. Whether or not a voter has 1 vote or 2, we are not a meritocracy.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16px; "><span class="hwGrp"><span d:priority="2" d:dhw="1" class="hw" style="font-size: 150%; "><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">mer</span><span class="hsb"></span>i<span class="hsb"></span>toc<span class="hsb"></span>ra<span class="hsb"></span>cy</span><span class="pronGrp"><span d:pr="US" type="US" class="pr" style="font-family: HiraMinPro-W3; "> |ˌmeriˈtäkrəsē|</span></span></span><span class="SB" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em; "><span class="prelim"><span d:ps="1" class="ps" style="font-weight: normal; "><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">noun</span> </span><span d:priority="2" class="infGrp">(<span class="syntax" style="font-weight: normal; "> pl. </span><span class="inf" style="font-weight: 600; ">-cies</span>)</span></span><span d:abs="1" class="sense" style="display: block; "><span class="def" style="font-weight: normal; "><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">government</span> <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">or</span> <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">the</span> holding of power by people selected on the basis of <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">their</span> <span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">ability</span>.</span></span><span d:abs="1" class="sense" style="display: block; "><br></span></span></span></div><div>We already select people based on their ability, as they have to get voted in in order to get any sort of say.</div><div><br></div><div>leo</div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>Leo Franchi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(650) 704 3680</div><div>Tufts University 2010 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org">lfranchi@kde.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu">leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>