-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael, I just don't think many people share your criticisms. They are appreciated, but ultimately unpersuasive.
I share many of Nathan's feelings. I can't possibly understand how the Sainte-Laguë and Borda methods would be implemented here. Dividing into factions would be utterly ridiculous. The "technical" and the "non-technical" users will each have representation? This is counterproductive, to say the least. Our legal structure-- a corporation-- necessarily involves some measure of majoritarianism; various legal mechanisms can distribute power in different ways between shareholders/members and the board, ultimately there will be some kind of a majority vote at some level. Hcoop is not some perpetual trust set up to provide a set level of service that is merely to be administered by trustees. This is a fluid, democratic organization. It is inclusive (radically so, I hope and believe), deliberative, and, yes, responsive. At a certain point, our legal structure requires members to remain vigilant and active if the coop is going to "act" like it should. This is a requirement if we are to be an organization that can grow to include others that share our values and want to be involved in their web hosting setup more than a mere customer of a business. We would not be able to function as well as we do today if we were bridled with byzantine formulas that reflected contrived divisions. More than that, again, Hcoop is not a trust. The decisions are largely not made in advance, because they cannot be with a technology service provider. Moreover, inability to make certain kinds of binding decisions in advance is to a certain extent part of the corporate form itself, as well. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHwphWMjXkO6QSj4kRAlzfAJ9mf0zBoU0DowtpJoOu1wEmBHyHEACfb2lg GLPo8cBuALYClwbvo6WY+yY= =3oXd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
