On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:27:25PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > The core user base (Debian devl) is not necessarily the democratic > majority of users. If you like to believe in the social contract, > users, afaikt, are anyone who uses Debian. There are far more 'users' > than developers but no representation of the non-developer-users. Until > Debian will accommodate impute from non-developers it is just an > exercise for the developers. >
The failure of 'democracies' (even this quoting will not hold it for ever) is in the fact that everybody believes to be entitled to judge everything, and to issue a directing opinion on every matter and aspect of life. As a result, the average level constantly is lowered, to accomodate the least capable that voices a desire. Evidence of that is overwhelming if you can see. A masterpiece of English literature would be considered a failure now, for containing too long paragrapahs and thus ideas too heavy to be handled by the average reader. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
