Elected/Appointed Board

[Max Spevack]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jon Stanley wrote:

> There however is, and should be, a requirement that the chair be 
> employed by Red Hat (and have veto power).  This is an emergency 
> override, like Rahul said, the plane is crashing and calling 
> 'Mayday!'.  Not that I think that it ever has been nor ever will be 
> utilized, it's something that's important to have in the back pocket. 
> As a real world analogy, when I go bicycling, I wear a helmet.  I 
> really hope it never will be necessary, but you get piece of mind from 
> knowing that it's there in case you need it.

If I did back far enough into the archives, back when we first announced 
the Board in April 2006, I remember saying something like "even though I 
have veto power as the FPL, if I ever have to use it, then it means that 
there has already been a colossal failure at some earlier point in our 
processes".

--Max