Hi,
On 11/26/10 15:24, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote:
My thought experiment was based on being locked out of the server, being
unable to contribute, and thereby loosing the right to vote.
I agree that the CT currently seem to have no provision to make sure
that someone who *wants* to be an active contributor can indeed do that.
This could be fixed.
Your thought experiment was based on the idea that OSMF could quickly
change the CT to require something else than a 2/3 majority. I hope I
managed to make it clear that this was a misunderstanding on your part;
even if they managed to lock you out, they could not change the terms to
which you have agreed.
This is pure speculation. I think that very people will be so
short-sighted that this is an issue for them. I mean, you can be for or
against anything right now, but if you are not blinded by ideology of
any sort then you will have to accept that times change, and that
*anything* you try to enshrine for eternity will hurt the project.
I do not see any reason to continue the discussion with you after these
ad-hominem attacks.
I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I am just trying to make you, and
others, understand that in 10 years time the project will likely have
100 times as much contributors as we have now. Picture yourself next to
100 people who have come after you, who have taken what you have given
to the project and who have built on it, improved it, made it "their"
project.
Do you *really* think it is right to say: What's mine is mine, and if
those 100 people in 10 years make any step that I don't like then I will
withdraw my work from under them? Because they will have built on your
work in good faith, thinking that we were all creating something
together; they will perhaps find themselves in a situation where they
feel they need to make a change in the license to adapt to changed
circumstances - nobody can foresee what the world will be like then. And
you request the right to command them, to threaten them with withdrawing
your 10-year-old contribution and all the interest it has accrued (by
others building on your work, improving it).
It may be *legally* possible to have a right to take your contribution
away then, but I think it would be morally wrong, and I would sincerely
ask anyone who feels the desire to pull the rug from under the project's
feet in 10 years time if the project doesn't do what one likes: please
recosider, and if you still cannot trust the project enough that you can
let go of your contribution, then leave.
Bye
Frederik
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