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> If that "vision" relates only to the design or structure of the software, then I believe that meritocracy means conforming to the project owner's standards.
by wolfgke 10y ago
> If that "vision" relates only to the design or structure of the software, then I believe that meritocracy means conforming to the project owner's standards.
At least in this case "meritocracy" does not mean "the opinion (about code structure etc.) that is (necessarily) shared by the majority of the contributors".
- krapp 10y agoWell, yeah, many if not all open source projects are dictatorships by necessity - not everyone's opinion can matter when only one or a few people are actually able to accept pull requests. Even the ones that accept the will of the majority are doing so by an arbitrary fiat. But if the majority of contributors disagree with the owner about fundamental design issues, that's what forks are for.