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Re: Note what happens when things are kept closed... :)
I agree on that one: Transparency is very important. However, an
horizontal structure may lead nowhere, IMO. Someone or some group
have to take the ultimate decisions and these may not always be the
more popular ones. For instance, I (as a non-hacker) may like a
certain piece of software while the hacker laughs at it because s/he
knows what's under the cover. This raises an interesting question:
Perhaps, we have to make info clear so everyone may understand it.
A good example is the help system in many proggies and manual pages
in LinUX distributions: They are hard to understand to non-hackers.
This issue at every level may become fundamental to the success of
SEUL. Also, a group without internal fights and where
people-in-charge are not always questioned may work better. This is
not the SEUL case but it may be so in the future (hope not). For
instance, Debian and BSD had internal problems while Linus' group
didn't: the result was that Linus' (who's accepted by everyone as a
leader) could take decisions which, in his words, would have been
impossible to implement. There is an interview about that one in
the net. Anyway, just a few opinions.
Cheers,
APS
] Subject: Note what happens when things are kept closed... :)
] From: Erik Walthinsen <omega@omegacs.net> ...
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