On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:58:27AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:56:45AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > If you have: > > > A - remove non-free (2:1 supermajority required, say) > > > B - handwave about the issue, don't really do anything > > > D - further discussion > > > you might get results something like: > > > 60 A B D > > > 30 B A D > > > 10 D B A > > > with the groups being {A} and {B,D}. B defeats D by 90:10, so next we > > > work with {A,B} scaling A down, ending up with B defeats A 40:30, in > > > spite of a majority of developers wanting to remove non-free entirely.
[snip] > The issues are utterly separate. Just because people mildly prefer one > direction over another doesn't mean they're actually unhappy with that > other direction. I've been trying to understand this. Are you concluding this lack of unhappiness because there are 90 preferences of A over D? D is just "further discussion", while B sounds much more like a definite "No, don't remove non-free" vote to me. I don't see how you infer supermajority support for A, from a supermajority support for "A or B". Richard Braakman