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Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> Quoting Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>:
>> > Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the "everything is software" vote
>> > as an "editorial change" and deceived many other developers should have
>> > tought about this.
>> 
>> The only people it made happy are extremists.  See #207932.  This is a
>
> A 3:1 majority win in 2004-04 makes your claim rather tenuous, unless you
> are arguing that such a large part of Debian is composed of extremists,
> only.

That was a 3:1 majority out of 200 voters, considering that Debian
counts almost 1000 developers and considering that many pros are
convinced they have been deceived.

Extremists are a minority but a very lound minority as usual which makes
them often win.

Dictorship of Minorities shall be opposed.

-- 
Jérôme Marant



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