On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:50:02 PM UTC+5:30, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > > increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my main > > concern as a Debian user, as I consider recent trends. > > I hope that Debian members consider an amendment to restrict voting > > rights for members who have a financial interest in Debian or in any > > project used by Debian, to promote and protect the public interest.
> Why, what is the reason for that? Explain why they are less objective or > anyone having no financial interest is more objective. Lets say I am a billionaire who's made his bucks selling cigarettes And you are a health-researcher who's made a new study of the co-relation between certain health-issues and tobacco-use. As you are about to publish your research you find that I have expressed a keen interest in meeting you. Would you take it as mere straightforward 'interest'? Or something more sinister? > Define financial interest and how you enforce this policy. Yes enforcement is the catch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/24b424a9-7050-462d-988e-46262e947...@googlegroups.com
