bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Sun, 13, Jul 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:

> > I agree with most of the above. Just one thing to correct: The _best_
> > OSS projects are driven by a "core team", not by a single human, who
> > decides everything. Thats what makes them the _best_. The chance for a
> > group of 3-6 people to be wrong on a point is much less than the
> > chance for a single person to be wrong. For example, thats one of the
> > most notable problem with the Linux kernel.
> > 
> > Don't get me wrong. During the time I've been with XFce, Olivier was
> > nearly always right in his decisions, and if he wasn't, we simply
> > accepted his decision, because we know he's the leader and he's the
> > one that founded this project, and so we respect his decision. But
> > this is a point to think about, since e.g. Linux is a very popular
> > example that suffers from this kind of leadership.
> 
> I disagree. Committees will get you just so far. Most groups of this
> kind have someone who has a casting vote because, at some point,
> eventually a decision must be taken. Overall, that is how we work.
> 
> Call Olivier 'Team Leader', 'Benevolent Dictator' or 'Chappie with the
> casting vote'; it comes done to the same thing.
> 
> I, for one, prefer it this way.

Anyway, lets forget about it and continue work on xfce.

> -- b

Benedikt

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