Re: OODL: licensing issues

[Alain Farmer]

> Adrian: Yes, the leader should only exercise their
> power when necessary, most things should go by the 
> way of direct democracy.

> Anthony: Or on little things. Things such as making
> minor bugfixes to the code, checking in other's 
> bugfixes, rejecting buggy code (or worse, stuff that 
> does not compile). 

> Anthony: Of course, a majority could vote to overide.

Alain : In my book, Direct-Democracy is NOT equivalent to
Majority-Rule. The latter can easily become a tyranny for the governed
minorities whose numbers are insufficent to protect their interests.
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