"Patrick Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I doubt hard that I am the only one who thinks that Ian Murdock makes a few > very good points about the Debian Project's situation.
And I doubt I'm the only one who thinks that Ian Murdock is talking out of his skull at points in that Linux Format interview. I've been told that debian isn't pure democracy - it just votes sometimes. If this was meant to be a social experiment, it's not a very adventurous one: it's not much different from any business larger than a sole trader. Sometimes the partners or shareholders or advisory board reviews the leaders' actions and endorses or ejects them. Having votes and maybe a board or cttes doesn't mean poor leadership unless you appoint the wrong people. So what would make a good person for us to elect in the DPL election? Well, a strong leader is not someone who pushes others in a certain direction, sticking fast to unpopular decisions - the strongest leader is someone who leads many other strong people to push in the same direction, building consensus. If you've seen them, compare the firey, stubborn non-leaders you see on shows like The Apprentice http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice with experienced leaders like John Harvey Jones http://www.swindonoffice.com/articles/johnharveyjones.htm and Gerry Robinson http://www.open2.net/nhs/ - whatever you think of their careers, it's hard to deny their leadership. Let's hope we have a stronger leader elected as DPL next time. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
