Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
- From: Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>
- To: "Lefty (石鏡 )" <lefty shugendo org>
- Cc: pvanhoof gnome org, rms gnu org, foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:35:02 +0100
Hi,
Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
> As a specific example, to the question, "Do you agree that viewing
> proprietary software as 'illegitimate', 'immoral', 'antisocial' and/or
> 'unethical' should be a pre-condition for syndication on Planet GNOME?", so
> far 151 respondents have answered "No", only 19 have answered "Yes". That's
> about an 8-to-1 ratio.
I'm no statistician (well, not any more at any rate), but I know that
you can construct surveys to say anything. If you ask someone "Do you
want to bring our boys home?" in the US, people are anti-war - if you
ask "Should we surrender in Iraq?" they're pro-war. Leading questions
prove nothing.
Your survey, in particular, is not particularly impartial. I would say
that it is somewhere between leading and "push polling". It's the type
of thing you rightly criticise when it is used by Boycott Novell.
Quite honestly, like others, I would just like to see this discussion
end. As I said before the weekend (50 emails ago), no opinions are being
changed, no new information of interest to GNOME Foundation members has
surfaced.
I'd like to ask both Lefty & Richard to refrain from mailing to this
thread again.
Thank you,
Dave.
--
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org
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