[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[Mike Godwin]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Defending means lessening the chance of the opponent to succeed. If
> you throw all the riches that are demanded and then some over the city
> wall, that's not defending, that's capitulating.
>

Wow. Even worse metaphor! "All the riches that are demanded"!


> Not implicitly, no. But you were defending actions that in my eyes did
> just that, namely by deleting material apparently using the criterium
> "what might Fox object to?" rather than using the criterium "what does
> not in any way add to our mission of spreading knowledge?"
>

I'm not defending such a criterion, and I do not believe that such a
criterion informed Jimmy's actions. Jimmy can speak better than I can on
what he was thinking, but I'll note again that, to the extent you focus on
retrospectively criticizing Jimmy and not on what can be done positively to
improve Commons policy or its implementation, you are missing an
opportunity. Think future, not past. Think project, not Jimmy.


--Mike