Has anyone ever considered this?

Has anyone ever considered Open Source Root?

Imagine an operating system that is fully open source - no root password.

It would be similar to Wikipedia where any user can make any changes that they want. The catch would be that no single user could do anything. Every single operation would have to be approved (or voted on, if you will) but a majority of the administrators.

(I can imagine an existing linux distro being modded to make this work - where some process has full root privileges and no human actually knows the root password. Then this process is a web server / webmin type program that combines wikipedia's users with webmins control of the system...)

Can someone tell me why this wouldn't work?

Based on this system - why couldn't you create an Open Source ISP?

If the computers are all managed by unpaid users who took a stake in the company because it is where they get their internet from, then why wouldn't it be possible to run a very cheap ISP that has essentially no staff - it's basically a non-profit organization that is run by it's members.

I realize there are some serious barriers standing in the way of this happening - like how would this non-profit open source isp get internet to its users... but I seriously think that with the creative imagination of the world, this is not something too impossible.

The ISP could be very bare bones. It literally only provides it's users with internet - nothing else. No email, no web hosting, nothing. Just plain, unfiltered internet. That way there is no user data on the system for someone to hack or steal, and it's incredibly cheap to run.

Prove me wrong, or prove me right.