On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:46:43PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote: > > You are invited to clarify on the "small teams" section of your > > platform. [...] > > I understood it as similar to what I call the "magnificent seven" > models being advocated by consensus-based grassroots groups > recently. It's not all that recent, it's taken directly from one of the old communist systems (I forget which, offhand). I believe it was once tried somewhere in Europe as a method for running a country, where it was a spectacular failure, but I really don't remember any details. The normal result of systems based on this concept is to minimise disagreement within groups while maximising disagreement between groups, causing widespread fragmentation and eventual collapse. Organisation by cliques simply doesn't work. <Insert preferred adage about failure to learn from history here> -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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