Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement
On Fri, 01 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, May 01 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Only as binding as we as a group consider them to be.
>
> Hmm. Certainly puts the social contract in a new light, though.
It really shouldn't; as a group we decide whether we're going to
uphold the social contract. There's no way to force the group to
uphold it. [Given the anguish with which we struggle on -project and
-vote to figure out what the SC says, it's seems clear that large
numbers of us feel that we should be upholding the SC.]
> > As such, people who think differently are free to ignore the
> > position statement in carrying out their duties (though they can
> > of course be overridden by GR.)
>
> Oh. So this is a way, via two simple majority GR's, for any majority
> to do an end run around the 3:1 constitutional requirements? nifty.
Sure. If we as a project are headed towards self-destruction, there's
really no way for the constitution to stop us. We always have to fall
back on the continued desire of developers to work together to create
the most technically excellent, free operating system possible.
Don Armstrong
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