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Look at the bigger pictureLook at the bigger picturePosted May 20, 2003 16:29 UTC (Tue) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)Parent article: Who speaks for the community?
On the other hand, we are a large community of highly talented people who have changed the software industry, and, increasingly, we are creating the software that runs the world. And, yet, our voice in political and industry circles is tiny. To me, this seems like a problem rather with the political and industry circles, not with our community. It's not even ironic that we, a large community, need some big guys to represent us, when all we want from those circles is just to be left alone. I don't know like you, but to me this smells too much like feudal racketeering. Decentralization is our main advantage, and we should not sell it for some illusionary protection. Or else we might risk being deprived of our independence, as it happened to medieval peasants.
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