"Georg C. F. Greve" greve@fsfeurope.org wrote:
We generally would however prefer to get that feedback in a non-public form first, because public discussions draw additional resources from ongoing work. I am for instance quite worried about the fact that ISO put OpenXML back on the fast track [1] and would prefer to spend more time on this issue and others. [1] http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/openxml_back_on_fast_track
FSFE can say that this is wrong, immoral, unethical and so on, but I believe that FSFE leaders should not go around questioning the accountability or democracy of other groups. That's the pot calling the kettle black a bit.
For example, that article mentions "it seems that such processes can be ignored by lone decisions of the ISO personnel" - well, at least they have a process. With the FSFE Raffle of the N800, which several fellows seem unhappy about, what can they do? There doesn't seem to be any process besides non-renewals. Emailing comments? Well, even after the negative feedback started was clear here, the FSFE Newsletter still went out with the raffle "happy to pass these gifts on" item included, so email clearly has only minor effect.
I know that there are strong reasons why FSFE is not more democratic, but this means its leaders need to be careful with the comments from the above article. Otherwise, more supporters will look at FSFE and say the reasons against greater democracy aren't sufficient.
Regards,