On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:25, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:06:52PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > ADvB> With the difference that somebody who's likely to do something > ADvB> like that would with a very very high probability never be > ADvB> trusted doing any important thing. > > Really? Looking at president of my country (Belarus), not to mention > some others, I wouldn't entrust him with power over my bathroom, but > behold, he is already trusted by millions of people... I honestly doubt he's trusted by millions of people. If Belorus was a volounteer driven project, he wouldn't lead it - people would be going away. But the real world is not the issue here, you can't fork Belorus... To make another comparison: The Linux Kernel is a project that is lead in the benign-dictator model that was the original proposal. There are occasional difficulties, but it sort of works. (I don't say it would work in the case of Debian. I only say it works well enough for some projects.) cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTE: keyserver bugs! get my key here: https://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481
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