<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> <br></font>Miguel> 16:58:07 <RandalSchwartz> at some point, it's a dictatorship. perhaps<br>Miguel> you never liked that.<br><br>With the key context there being "at some point".<br><br>As in, "the buck stops here".<br><br>There can be endless discussion on subjects in squeak-dev, but if there's<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh how I would have wished for endless discussions BEFORE making authoritarian decisions.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>no resolution, it's up to the board to *choose*. That's why you elect<br>a board... to *govern*.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is an "OVERSIGHT" board! </div><div><br></div><div>That's why you need your terms of reference, to stop you acting like a government, you were not elected to govern but to oversee.</div><div><br></div><div>You previously endorsed a release team to make governing decisions about the release. Putting the board in competition with the release team was a very dumb idea. Making decisions about the release without considering the release team or using the media chosen by the release team was also a bad idea.</div><div><br></div><div>There were considered reasons why the release team was working the way it was, and you decided to ignore them all because you apparently "knew better". What utter arrogance.</div><div><br></div><div>Keith</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></body></html>