Re: [Fsf-friends] [FSUG-Bangalore] Fwd: [ilugd] AGBM, and elections to ILUG-Delhi: Sun., May 3rd, 2pm, SIT-JNU
2009/3/25 Harish Singh kumar.harish.singh@googlemail.com:
Hello! You are not reading what is the official statement at debian.org . Essential it says "Even though Debian isn't really a democracy, we use a democratic process to elect our leaders and to approve general resolutions. These procedures are defined by the Debian Constitution http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution. "
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The developers decided upon that process. That is democracy.
From your series of mails I understand that you are not for a
democratic process. Whether India is truely democratic is debatable but not for this list. But as long as the Preamble of Indian Constitution http://www.iloveindia.com/constitution-of-india/preamble.html says that we are a democratic republic we shall work to ensure that it remains as such.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:
democratic republic we shall work to ensure that it remains as such.
I guess most amongst us understand *democracy* only through its *representative style* and subsequently try towards the conquest of *representative*.
However, democracy could also be interpreted in its *direct style*, where everybody debates and decides on issues, whereby the minimal representative character is there just to ensure this.
If we assume FSF-I to be one upholding direct democracy in principle, enforcing the values through its minimal representative-ness, then where is the need for carrying ahead with such a debate ? Are there any instances where someone is prevented from participating any debates ?
CK Raju
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CK Raju wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Vikram Vincent vincentvikram@gmail.com wrote:
democratic republic we shall work to ensure that it remains as such.
I guess most amongst us understand *democracy* only through its *representative style* and subsequently try towards the conquest of *representative*.
However, democracy could also be interpreted in its *direct style*, where everybody debates and decides on issues, whereby the minimal representative character is there just to ensure this.
If we assume FSF-I to be one upholding direct democracy in principle, enforcing the values through its minimal representative-ness, then where is the need for carrying ahead with such a debate ? Are there any instances where someone is prevented from participating any debates ?
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