On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:13:26AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:48:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > I would expect to see a highly polarised set of results, where most > > > people rank further discussion as 2. It doesn't matter whether it's > > > mathematically sound or not, that's how people think. > > It might be how *you* think; but at least historically Debian tends > > to prefer to make a decision, even if it's not the one they personally > > prefer. > Historically, Debian tends to have a whole bunch of nonsensical > ballots filed in every vote; we have developers who simply do not > comprehend our voting system.
Well, yes we do have developers who don't understand our voting system. By what you've been saying in this thread, you're one of them. > I think you'll find that most people who want to keep non-free would > be happy to vote "Further discussion" and are not even aware of what > you describe, let alone interested in it. I think people who want to keep non-free would be much happier for the project to decide that than to have further discussion on the matter. I also think I'm in a better position to speak for such people, since I'm one of them. But perhaps you have some evidence to support your claim, other than baseless speculation? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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