Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:22:04 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205161539.028acab0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030205190345.GD42936@roark.gnf.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302051056020.97117-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030205171407.A15358@freebie.xs4all.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302051056020.97117-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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At 12:03 PM 2/5/2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote: >core has made their decision. When they were elected, you entrusted them >to make hard decisions like this. When *who* elected them? I certainly had no vote. Right now, -core is, in a very real sense, self-electing. They decide who gets a commit bit, and the people with the commit bits vote for -core. Sort of like the situation with George Bush and the US Supreme Court. A predecessor of the same party appointed the judges, who made Bush president out of partisan loyalty even though he lost the popular vote and the election results were irreparably tainted by illegally designed ballots. Much corporate malfeasance is due to a similar phenomenon: The CEO brings in Board members, who owe loyalty to the CEO due to the perks he grants them. In all of these cases we see failures of governance due to organizational design that does not properly anticipate vested interests and feedback loops related to them. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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