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From: | Michael Snyder |
Subject: | Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules |
Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:49:14 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 |
Jim Blandy wrote:
Tyranny is a better method exactly when the tyrant is good at synthesizing the different concerns people raise, finding common ground, and building a consensus around the solution. In other words, tyranny works when the tyrant is able to have the effects I've attributed above to voting: encouraging people to make persuasive arguments and look for compromises, and discouraging simple heel-digging. But if the tyrant is part of the problem, instead of being a facilitator, things go very poorly.
Tyranny, ironically, requires consensus. People have to agree to accept the tyrant's authority. When someone tries to take on such authority and people don't like it, you get rebellion.
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