[Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

Fri May 22 10:52:28 UTC 2009

No opinion means no opinion and should not be interpreted in any way,
the group represents an uncertainty in the result.
John

Erik Moeller skrev:
> 2009/5/20 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
>> The licensing update poll has been tallied.
>>
>> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" :  13242 (75.8%)
>> "No, I am opposed to this change" :  1829 (10.5%)
>> "I do not have an opinion on this change" :  2391 (13.7%)
> 
> I do want to state for the record that the only reason a "no opinion"
> option was included in the vote was to give users an option to "not
> vote" explicitly if they didn't feel they could have an informed
> opinion on such a complex issue, so that they wouldn't feel compelled
> to make one up. In other words, it was a measure intended to increase
> the quality of the yes/no votes. But I don't think these neutral votes
> should be given greater weight than the people who expressed no
> opinion by not voting.
> 
> In other words, I consider this for all intents and purposes an
> 88%/12% result (it was also stated in the proposal that "votes that
> express a preference" would be the basis of any decision). I say this
> because that is important if people want to view it through the lens
> of our traditional standards of "rough consensus". :-)