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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 16:02 -0700, Benjamin Black wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Trust the electorate to figure out which of the candidates can act
> independently of their employer, then.
>

I would be happy to do that if the board were 24 individual seats.
Since 2/3 of the seats are purchased by companies and filled by
employees we can be pretty certain will act in the interests of their
generally well-funded and powerful employer, the remaining 1/3 which
was carved out specifically to represent the community should be
similarly protected.  I would support a proposal to eliminate all paid
seats, as well, though I doubt that would be very popular.


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