This is not a democracy

Circa l’accesa questione della posizione dei pulsanti in Lucid Lynx, Mark Shuttleworth, dando una sintesi della visione di Comunità nel mondo Ubuntu, afferma:

We all make Ubuntu, but we do not all make all of it. In other words, we delegate well. […] We have processes to help make sure we’re doing a good job of delegation, but being an open community is not the same as saying everybody has a say in everything.
This is a difference between Ubuntu and several other community distributions. It may feel less democratic, but it’s more meritocratic […]
No. This is not a democracy.

Mark Shuttleworth, Comment 167 for bug 532633.

Via Web Upd8.