Re: [hylafax-users] new community site

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Duffy wrote:

> But unilaterally starting a new set of resources and claiming directly 
> or through inference that those resources are endorsed by the HylaFAX 
> project (when in fact they are endorsed by Lee Howard) is simply 
> dishonest. 


"The HylaFAX project" is a very nebulous term, and in the grandest sense 
it involves not only people that are here, but people that are not 
here.  For example, is Sam Leffler part of "the HylaFAX project"?  I 
would say so, yes.  In fact, I would say that it is [still] by _his_ 
"law" (as found in the COPYRIGHT file) that "the HylaFAX project" is 
governed (and not more specifically some democratic process).

I enjoy the democratic process.  I do.  And I also think that a 
benevolent presidency works well.  The benevolent presidency exibits 
problems when the presidency loses the benevolence attribute.  And, the 
democratic process begins to exhibit flaws when there are too few 
participating in the process itself.  (It's tough to function in a 
democracy when there are but a few voters, and one says "yes" and one 
says "no" and everyone else says "I don't really care, and I don't want 
to get involved in a battle".)

Darren would like everyone to believe that "the HylaFAX project" is 
already goverened democratically.  This is not true.  The HylaFAX 
project is goverened by the benevolent presidency of Sam Leffler, who 
has stepped away and has let the license govern in his stead.  What 
Darren is really saying, though, is that he feels _hylafax.org_ is 
governed democratically.  So there's a democratic state functioning 
underneath the benevolent dictatorship of Sam Leffler's law.  This is 
fine.  There still is room for other democratic states functioning 
underneath the same dictatorship.

In any case I am certainly not trying to be dishonest.  And I'm having 
trouble seeing what motive there would be for me to so be.

Thanks,

Lee.


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