[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] Policy-team

[Peter FELECAN]

Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On 2/7/11, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is nice but utterly complicated. What's wrong with majority as
>> defined:
>>...
>
> Because 51% in favour, can mean 49% vehemently against, yet it still passes.
>
> Having a policy passed, that pisses off 49% of active maintainers, is
> never a good idea.

As said Alexis de Tocqueville, the democracy is the dictatorship of the
majority over the minority. But that is true mainly in ochlocracies.
-- 
Peter