@jonmsterling I think that "democratically run" projects could still make some policy of ambiguity work, although perhaps this is just because they aren't really that democratic. The electorate usually consists of other trusted developers (rather than the actual users of the project), who probably only got to the point of being trusted developers because they shared common opinions with the previously established trusted developers. In that way, most "democratic" open source projects are run more like a supreme court that elects its own future members.