Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

Taylan Kammer, 25/02/20 21:30:
> At face value I 99% agree with the proposed "GNU Social Contract" and
> even the CoC you're talking about here, yet I find myself agreeing with
> what you're saying.

I've yet to see a CoC which isn't a tool for centralisation of power. 
They tend to create some autocratic body with ultimate and 
non-appealable decision-making powers over all aspects of a project. 
(Software projects are made by people, so if you can decide who's in and 
who's out, or what can be said and what can't, you potentially get to 
decide everything.)

If your project is completely hierarchical (e.g. fully controlled by a 
listed for-profit corporation), this may not be a problem. If it is 
fully democratic and structured (e.g. fully controlled by an association 
with very clear bylaws, within a jurisdiction which makes the legal 
limits clear), it might also work, but then you cannot override the 
ultimate decision maker (usually the assembly of members). The number of 
successful projects falling in either category is close to nil though.

Federico