On 7 Apr 2008, at 12:24, Robin Paulson wrote: > 2008/4/7 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> stumbled across a quote by David D Clark (of Internet >> architecture fame) today. He said: >> >> "We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough >> consensus and running code." > > maybe someone should tell the government? apparently we're all wasting > our time voting for them, and 'rough consensus' should be used to > decide who's in power.
Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown (no election) ? > > > did he have any basis for it, or was it just a nice pseudo-anarchic > sound bite? > >> Not that I'm into gurus and such but it's nice to see that I am not >> the only sane person on earth who doubts that formal voting processes >> are not necessarily the best thing to have ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
