On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:08:47PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marty" <mar...@ix.netcom.com> > > > > 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. > > Conflicts of interest are not just financial. Even an unpaid developer > should probably not be voting as a technical committee member on whether to > make his project the Debian default. He could vote for his project because > of the glory that comes with being the Debian default. Or maybe he truly > believes it is the best. But he knows his project better than any of the > alternatives. He is invested in it. He should be the expert petitioning the > decision-makers, but he should not be one of the decision-makers. > > I really think this concept is obvious and was really surprised that Debian > allowed a vote for default init system to occur in a technical committee > whose members have vested interests in one init system or another. > > Avoiding perceived conflict of interest is just as important as avoiding > actual conflict of interest, because it undermines confidence in the > leadership. Most conflict-of-interest regulations that I know of (USA-based) > reflect this. (But let's not start citing examples of government officials > who have violated these principles -- we all know there are plenty). > > Anyway, regardless of how impartial the tech committee members are believed > to be, the upstart guys and the systemd guys probably should not have > participated in the vote for default init system. > > -Rob > > >
There was no conflict of interest. Every voter has some interests and the outcome of a vote determines the common interest. But there is no conflict of interest during a vote. A conflict happens when somebody is entrusted by a group to guard a common good and he/she has her/himself interests in that good. This thread is about the inability to accept a outcome of a democratic process. Now they claim to own "the right debian" way and to protect that some "un-debian" persons have to be stopped. I have seen that before... -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/20141017120611.gb30...@newton.itcfollmann.com
