[OSM-talk] Voting

[Robin Paulson]

2008/4/7 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
>      stumbled across a quote by David D Clark (of Internet
>  architecture fame) today. He said:
>
>  "We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough
>  consensus and running code."

maybe someone should tell the government? apparently we're all wasting
our time voting for them, and 'rough consensus' should be used to
decide who's in power.

did he have any basis for it, or was it just a nice pseudo-anarchic sound bite?

>  Not that I'm into gurus and such but it's nice to see that I am not
>  the only sane person on earth who doubts that formal voting processes
>  are not necessarily the best thing to have ;-)