[OSM-talk] Voting

[SteveC]

On 7 Apr 2008, at 12:24, Robin Paulson wrote:
> 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.

Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown (no  
election) ?

>
>
> 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 ;-)
>
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Best

Steve