On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:02:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 > Henning Follmann <hfollm...@itcfollmann.com> 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. > > You know darn well, Henning. In anything, not just Linux, not just > Debian, not just systemd, when somebody has the responsibility of doing > the best thing for the community or other entity, but they also have a > financial stake in which way the thing goes, they have a huge incentive > to vote in a way detrimental to the community or other entity. This is > why bribery is a crime. >
Well thanks for pointing that out. But this effort can be seen as a way to tilt the voting based on one aspect. And this being _systemd_. Now a group has identified that another group with "financial interest" is more likely to vote for sytemd. So lets disenfranchise those. That is equally bad. And second "financial interest" != bribery. This is a very distorted view. My work is based on debian as a development platform. So I do have a financial interest in debian being a stable platform. So I shall be disenfranchised? -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com -- 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/20141014160611.ga25...@newton.itcfollmann.com
