Appointment of Board Members.

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 01:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 12:34 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> > The ability to make sure the FPL doesn't go off the reservation?
> >
> > The ability to make sure that crazy people don't end up as FPL and cause
> > unmanageable havoc? It's not really that crazy to think of someone
> > unbalanced but perhaps charismatic getting elected. 
> 
> Lose the veto power entirely and you have much less of that risk.  
> FESCo doesn't have a single person with a veto power and we are relying
> on a fully elected group and things are moving along just fine.   If the
> board works on a consensus model just like now but without the veto
> power, would things really be that different?   

I can think of a couple of situations where it would be.

Remember 'The INCIDENT'?



> >> What would Red Hat lose by giving up on the veto power?  The
> >> benefit to losing the power is that others vendors and the volunteer
> >> community would feel more in control. 
> > Oh cmon... other vendors? Really?
> 
> Others vendors are participating within Fedora already.  Multi vendor
> open source communities are healthier than single vendor dominated ones. 

<eyeroll>

-sv