Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.
Hi,
>>"Britton" == Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu> writes:
Britton> Good individuals will almost invariably harbor a few bad
Britton> individual ideas, for whatever reason. This is especially
Britton> true in the technical fields. The process appears to be
Britton> sufficiently democratic that this doesn't matter, but
Britton> rotation would ensure that it wouldn't.
I think you may be right n the first count: the process
appears to be sufficiently democratic that this doesn't matter, and
we do not need to add bureaucratic overhead to aid that (what ain't
broke ...)
Britton> [...] in a way I think was bad for Debian. Dave got his back
Britton> up. Mayby he wouldn't have stayed anyway, but I think it was
Britton> a shame to lose him. He made CDs, he presumably told his
Britton> friends abou Debian, brought them CDs the next day, etc.
There are some things I would not subject myself to just for
the sake of Debian's popularity. I prefer to have a group of people
around that work together well enough to be conducive to the synergy
that is Debian.
manoj
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