On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:44:49PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > The reason why doing it over the phone is a good idea is that > people have a harder time lying over the phone -- in person is > the most difficult time to lie. The whole point of it isn't to > ensure competancy, well, maybe it is, but also to prevent those who > would rather the free software movement do poorly from joining the > organization, where they might be able to do much more damage.
Um.. we *can't* do anything about people who actively want to cause problems. [But hopefully we can hold them accountable if they're outrageous.] What the phone interview deals with is people who just plain haven't thought through the issues yet. Which, not surprisingly, is a lot of people (perhaps most). I think this is an important distinction to understand. -- Raul
