On 01/06/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
That sounds like an effective divide and conquer
strategy. A person who
is determined to effect these changes would likely have an easier time
doing it that way than by trying to develop a consensus across all the
projects at once.
I very much support the operational autonomy of projects, but this is
not an operational matter; it's a question of identity. To draw a
parallel with the United States, would it be acceptable if State X
insisted on calling itself the "Confederate State of X"? Even an
overwhelming popular vote in the state for that would not find
acceptance in a wider community.
Given that one in twelve of the US states don't call themselves states
at all, you may be working from a bad example here :-)
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