On 10/28/19 8:36 AM, Jean Louis wrote: > "Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have > consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their > freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision > of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or > maintenance of the social order." -- thus I would not like to invite > people to GNU project with any type of a French based middle-aged > surrendering of their freedoms to whatever authority of small group of > people who are now proposing the "GNU Social Contract".
That is all good and well, but the real problem is that the enforcement and modalities of gaining consent inevitably leads to the guillotine for a large number of loyalist and rebels to no affect on real governance.. nay .. you get total chaos. Like it or not, for small scale volunteer projects, tyrannical dictatorial rule most often works to everyone's benefit. One can always vote with there feet. RMS doesn't need to be hamstrung by a bunch of wannabes after a prize, that at the end of the day, they wouldn't even value much. Instead of this thread, one should consider what are you going to do after Richard is gone, ever because he grows old and dies, or because he just gets sick of being a human pinata. Ruben -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
