Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Kaiser 

Francis Davey schrieb:

There seems (to me) to be nothing wrong
in principle in holding a vote by email


You mean other than emails being easily falsified and there's not even 
the slightest guarantee that a normal email is transmitted to the right 
recipient correctly.



or indeed by any other
electronic means.


I vote for other electronic means, then. ;-)

Robert Kaiser


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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-15 Thread Francis Davey 
On 15 December 2010 19:06, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote:
 Francis Davey schrieb:

 There seems (to me) to be nothing wrong
 in principle in holding a vote by email

 You mean other than emails being easily falsified and there's not even the
 slightest guarantee that a normal email is transmitted to the right
 recipient correctly.


No, those are practical rather than principled objections and there
are ways of overcoming them (albeit with their own practical
problems). NB: I'm not saying that its a good idea or not, I'm simply
not making comment on practicalities.

-- 
Francis Davey

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