good thought, good ideas - and...

[Marc Mutz]

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On Saturday 20 April 2002 12:55, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
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> We need to add some more democratic rules. We need to take votes in the
> core team. On a Sytem based like the debian one.
<snip>

Sorry, this simply isn't a democracy. This is a loosely organized anarchy. 
Anything else won't work unless we're all paid. You only do what you actually 
don't want to do if you are paid.

Apart from that, there's a reason no-one has yet implemented really direct 
democracy in any country: As the first thing, citizens will vote to reduce 
taxes and then the country dies down since no-one will pay for the street 
repairs.
Someone has once said something along the lines of "The more people come 
together the more stupid they are."

Consensus decisions work. IETF is living proof.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>
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