On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > That is, the team would rule on individual cases, rather than issuing > "lists of things not to do". IMHO that pretty much would make it a > court with the power to judge project members. And I'm not sure that > the team not taking actual measures, but just making "recommendations" > to other people who are empowered to take action, would make a > difference. In fact, that would be curiously similar to how the > Inquisition proceeded: technically they never executed anyone, they > just sent people to the secular authority with the "recommendation" to > burn them at the stake. > > And if the people empowered to take action can disagree with the > recommendation and apply their own judgement, well, that would make > the "ultimate authority" concept void, and I would say, would nullify > the whole point of having the team "interpret the CoC".
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