Re: [ALSC-Forum] RE: Options A,B,C

[Jeff Williams]

Karl and all stakeholders or interested parties,

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Bruce Young wrote:
>
> > ...  I don't discount the fact that the industries represented by these
> > SOs deserve representation on the board.
>
> Why?
>
> One can extend that logic to justify giving industries a vote in our
> Presidential and congressional elections here in the US.  But we haven't
> done that.  And I'm not aware that there are many places in the world in
> which votes are given to non-human entities in elections on matters of
> public policy.
>
> And even despite that lack of franchise, industries have had no trouble
> getting their political voices heard.  In fact, the concern is not that
> companies are unheard - to the contrary the concern is that they are heard
> too loudly.

  Agreed.  Large company influence even with a One-man-one-vote
At-Large would still give these big IP interests significant influence.
As it stand now however they have ALL the influence without any
balance that a strong At-Large or stakeholders/Interested parties
could provide.  Ergo, I agree with you Karl, that any policy that
is under consideration must pass the vote muster of the At-Large
members before implementation.

>
>
> A company that has a position on some issue is free to evangelize its
> point of view to try to get human electors to go along with it, or not.
>
> And because companies are composed of people, giving a vote to a company
> is tantamount to giving those people extra votes - once as the company and
> once as people.  Is that fair?  Not in my book.
>
> I hew to a simple principle: one person-one vote.

  Here Here!

>
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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