On 16-Dec-98 Mike Goldman wrote: > Nothing prevents other prospective candidates from nominating themselves now, > or even > campaigning in advance of formal nomination. If you and the other present > candidates > all want to keep quiet between now and the end of the nomination period, that > is fine, > but if there is less than unanimous agreement to do so, you do not have a > unilateral > right to prevent others from campaigning. If the constitution is violating someone's "free speech", submit a proposal to have it changed. If you think I'm reading the constitution wrong, tell me... but these are two different issues. Saying that "not allowing campaigning during the first three weeks violates your free speech rights" is not going to change the fact the the constitution that Debian adopted and agreed (in this case, lack of a negative vote is assumed to be quiet acceptance) to abide by says no campaigning during the the nomination period. I can already hear somebody saying "but I didn't accept, I didn't even vote" but I don't think that's a valid argument, either, for disregarding what the constitution says. > Darren's post further suggested > that > non-candidates ought not to post DPL election-related messages during this > period, > which is a fairly serious circumscription of developers' speech. Specificly, I *asked* that non-canidates not post messages that might intice the canidates to respond. If I were to post a long message on why Joe Brown isn't qualified to run Debian, he'd be really really tempted to defend himself and point out why he IS the perfect canidate.... Or if you were to ask the canidates what their opinion of staring to include non-free as part of the official Debian, well, they'd be rude to just ignore the question.. not answer.. and stating their opinions would be campaigning. If you really really have to know, you could always email them privatly... This isn't any sort of *law* more of a favor to the rest of Debian. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <>< * * -------------------- * -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ---------------* * Darren Benham * Version: 3.1 * * <gecko@benham.net> * GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++* * * E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- * * Debian Developer * PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ * * <gecko@debian.org> * G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ * * -------------------- * ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------* =========================================================================
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