Subj : Turning Fidonet into a democracy? Never gonna happen.
To   : Alexey Vissarionov
From : John Dovey
Date : Thu Mar 10 2022 09:20 am

  Re: Turning Fidonet into a democracy? Never gonna happen.
  By: Alexey Vissarionov to Bj”rn Felten on Wed Mar 09 2022 08:40:00

 BF>> Can you even imagine what the internet would look like today, if the
 BF>> politicians had been in charge (with all their "donations" from the
 BF>> media corporations)?

I would compare apples with apples. For example the ISO, ITU, WW3C, or maybe more pertinitely, the RFC procedure of the IETF... Technical committees, elected by stakeholders making decions on technical issues. Is it perfect? Of course not. Does (did) it work? QED... 

JD

John Dovey
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