> OTOH, you need rules in order to be a "nation of laws" rather than a > "nation of men." The OpenSolaris community is not a nation, but people > are watching how we conduct ourselves, and if we have a rule we should > follow it or amend it via a prescribed mechanism. If it turns out to be > impossible to amend a universally hated rule via the prescribed > mechanism THEN we have a real problem. > > Using the same sorts of terms you used: a fascist could argue that > "secret ballots are not a good rule, so let's chuck it."
It always amazes me how one thing written on the internet can be spun so badly. We have a vote in hand. We have a voting population P. The number N of ballots is not a majority because ( N/P < 0.5 ) However, within the number N we have greater than 50% that made a vote that supports a given directive. The problem, is that we don't have a practical, pragmatic way to apply that vote. The rule book does not work for us in this case. Do we have a leader? A person or group of people that would look at this, call a meeting and simply look at the vote and make a decision. Dennis
