Who is the "leadership" is irrelevant, what is relevant is what the community says. The problem is when the voice of the community is silenced, which what many "leaders" do.
When dissent is welcomed, like in the Linux community, progress is made, and these kinds of issues can be resolved even against bad "leadership". When dissent is silenced, then you are at the mercy of the "leadership", like in the GNOME community.
This is called authoritarianism, and modern societies recognize it as something bad, but apparently open source communities still don't.
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Power structures are overrated
Date: 2012-10-07 04:38 pm (UTC)When dissent is welcomed, like in the Linux community, progress is made, and these kinds of issues can be resolved even against bad "leadership". When dissent is silenced, then you are at the mercy of the "leadership", like in the GNOME community.
This is called authoritarianism, and modern societies recognize it as something bad, but apparently open source communities still don't.
Without dissent, there's no progress.