Re: why debian
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:27:25PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> The core user base (Debian devl) is not necessarily the democratic
> majority of users. If you like to believe in the social contract,
> users, afaikt, are anyone who uses Debian. There are far more 'users'
> than developers but no representation of the non-developer-users. Until
> Debian will accommodate impute from non-developers it is just an
> exercise for the developers.
>
The failure of 'democracies' (even this quoting will not hold it for
ever) is in the fact that everybody believes to be entitled to judge
everything, and to issue a directing opinion on every matter and
aspect of life. As a result, the average level constantly is lowered,
to accomodate the least capable that voices a desire. Evidence of that
is overwhelming if you can see. A masterpiece of English literature
would be considered a failure now, for containing too long paragrapahs
and thus ideas too heavy to be handled by the average reader.
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