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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] set of packages for each purpose + Desktop wars
From:       Philippe Fremy <phil () freehackers ! org>
Date:       2003-12-12 9:35:08
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On Friday 12 December 2003 10:06, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > you are courting for supporters, not collaborators.
>
> No more or less than Linus Torvalds does in leading the kernel
> development. Somebody has to make difficult decisions from time to time,
> that the group would not arrive at via consensus.
>
> Linus has a vision that to some extent dominates the kernel development,
> but not totally.

Indeed, but there are other projects that work with a kind of democratic 
process instead of a benevolent dictatorship. I believe Apache and debian 
work that way. KDE and Gnome do for sure. They are directed, the first by 
the group of its core developers, the second by the Gnome Foundation Board.

So, the question is: do you plan to work in a democratic manner with 
UserLinux or to act as a benevolent dictator, in the Linux, python, perl 
fashion ?

This will certainly have a huge influence on the number of volonteer you can 
gather.

	cheers,

	Philippe
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