Deliberately enshrining principal-agent problems (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Wednesday, 16 November 2005

Deliberately enshrining principal-agent problems

If you think the executive has a hard time controlling the bureaucracy it nominally heads, or that the Supreme Court has difficulty keeping the 9th Circuit reined in, just remember: these principal-agent problems could be worse. In the case of the Debian project’s constitution, much worse.

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