On 17/10/14 23:06, Henning Follmann wrote: > 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.
As succinctly put here (have you read this Marty?):- https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00390.html > 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... ?? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/10/msg00308.html > > -H > Kind regards -- "Passion is a knife without morality" ~ apropos of little -- 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/544100e7.9090...@gmail.com
