[OSM-talk] License graph

[Dermot McNally]

On 19 April 2011 13:14, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:51:06 +0200
> Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>> One small plea: Could you refrain from saying "the camp that wants to
>> move to the ODbL". It sounds like it's a small bunch of people when
>> indeed it is the overwhelming majority.
>
> well that's just meadowdust.
> The ODbL camp did not even get a majority of the OSMF members to vote
> in favour of "the method of changeover".
> To make your majority you add in X thousand who joined late and didn't
> get a vote, and subtract Y thousand who haven't yet made an edit.

In addition to lacking skills of politeness it seems you cannot count
either. Since the artificially-fixed epoch of last Sunday - prior to
which over 10,000 users agreed to the change, explicitly, not
automatically - the stats of yes versus no decisions, excluding those
existing yeses, are, as I type this mail:

Yes: 708 (88%)
No: 95 (12%)

Fred describes this as an overwhelming majority. You disagree. based
on some hand-wavy logic and a suggestion of deceit involving new
signups when it is abundantly clear that such new signups do not form
part of the claim you hope to dispute.

Stick to the facts. Learn to add and subtract. Learn some basic human
courtesy. Stop the accusations of deceit when you are the one
presenting the false information.

Dermot

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