[OSM-talk] Voting

[paul youlten]

...or as Ken Livingstone said: "If voting changed anything they'd abolish it."


On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:57 AM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown (no
> election) ?
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> >
> > 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
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> Steve
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