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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> 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

http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004

There were exactly 909 developers including active, MIA and inactive ones at
the time of the 2004-04 GR, as stated in the vote page.  However only 396
developers voted.

People who don't vote in Debian, by definition, don't care (if they wanted
to protest, they would vote against all options).

Option D (rescind the 2004-03 GR) didn't even reach the 3:1 quorum.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh