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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
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> On 08/01/2012 06:02 PM, Benjamin Black wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>>>> And if the answer is 'no' then its probably not an issue they care
>>>> that much about and its not those cases I think people are really
>>>> worried about.  In the end I just don't see the upside but plenty
>>>> of downside to allowing companies more than one vote at the board.
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>>> I agree re: allowing companies more than one vote. I'm just saying
>>> please, please, please do not confuse a vote from me with a vote from my
>>> company. I'm fairly certain that I can provide years of corroboration
>>> for that.
>>>
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>> The question there is not whether _you_, or any other specific person,
>> can be trusted to act independently of their employer.  The question
>> is whether permitting member company employees to hold individual
>> seats _in general_ will serve the community and the project over the
>> long-term.  In this I take a pretty liberal view of the democratic
>> process: I am much more trusting of the electorate and much less
>> trusting of the candidates.
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> Totally. At the end of the day, if we can't get a good electorate up in
> here, all the seat number restrictions in the world aren't going to save us.

The electorate we have is a good electorate, in all cases.  As one of
my favorite humans taught me, whoever shows up are the right people.


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