-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 06:15 AM, Thomas Harding wrote: > I fully agree with that. A strong, good "constitution" is needed to > try to avoid problems. > > A point of failure is "who is in charge" of hardware/sysadmin. In > fact, even on Savannah you are in lack of admins, as it needs huge > capabilities. > > Another is : "there is a unused amount of money, what is the next > investment?" Worse: there is an hardware failure we can't afford > with "federal reserve", who can afford? > > The Debian ballot model could be a good start point on > "decisions". >
I find this moving away from a situation that is easily for a GPL analog to address. There are arguments, discussions, and fighting in all societies everywhere all the time over what model is most appropriate for the management of resources. I don't think we can come up something would be good enough in every situation in a mailing list discussion, but, the way in which FSF handled peer review for version 3 of the GPL and friends might be a good starting point. Part of the problem is scale, and part of the problem is availability. When only a small number of people have what is required to provide a global resource, they themselves become the attack vector for abusing that resource. Before coming to New Zealand, I remember a rather disturbing black out in the Northeastern United States (and parts of Canada), which was able to occur because power networking is too centralized. Borrowing from Professor Moglen's ideology, free hardware (runnig free software) is the second step in attacking this problem. In this case, we mean that the specifications, designs, and interfaces for the hardware we use to effect our destinies are shared in the commons in the same way that human-readable source code is shared in the commons by copyleft licensing. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP+LRnAAoJEM5s7GXJ0FEIqH8IAJQAxJW/FIdftsKUG16/ja+t GsJGvBGy+mXmVmnAunzst0tnbtahFoxSqYXF2O+Xfj62V6kDXOkpLg6gVriwrTPn S1C5QS9ilI/BUNhF/dBIe58CkizSoniGai+03Q8swpbVv8GmWsPfGEollS5cr/C6 ek1J4CAT4YsgytIzVtspIDGGdmrkqMWvIHqy/qeYnT/o2QrljOkNYjSbjgleagNh CIdBKwsr1KWuhQqXiiWtoiB9kZEsxRpGjqHe9rlDdvDAFz9bDuao2EPfGpWFgVjt zXPUVuTgduOfcFBfZsxeJ7UFbisrBSFDCLa6SH27W+N9ivGq3FTvym9zJYiCTk8= =7djh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
