On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:18 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I sort of thought we were a democracy, no?
> Benevelant autocracy(sp?) ... core isn't voted ... just cause we defer to
> -hackers 99.9% of the time doesn't make us a democracy ... in the end,
> core acts akin to MySQL AB, other then we're probably alot more quiet :)
Benevolent oligarchy is the term you want.
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