[Foundation-l] Self-determination of language versions in questions of skin?

[David Gerard]

On 4 July 2010 02:03, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/2010 04:47 PM, David Gerard wrote:

>> Well. not really. He's asking the same question Greg Maxwell and I
>> asked last month about the language list defaulting to open rather
>> than closed: If a wiki voted for it, would that override the usability
>> team's dictates? That was a straight "yes or no" question, like this
>> is, and we only got weaseling too.

> That's phrased in terms of dominance. It's in effect asking who's the
> bigger monkey. I think that's a conversation worth avoiding where possible.


The dominance element was brought in, as you well know, by Trevor
Parscal's preremptory reversion of the removal of the collapsed list.
The dominance was, as you well know, already blatantly exercised. The
question now is what defences are possible.

Please, stop trying to obfuscate.


- d.