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Keith Beattie  
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 More options 7 Apr 1999, 08:00
Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user
From: Keith Beattie <k...@icds.org>
Date: 1999/04/07
Subject: Re: email threat

On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:52:30AM -0700, Britton Kerin wrote:
> When the leader or
> representative of a group is stigmatized as a dangerous gun nut this rubs
> off on the rest of the group, so please be careful what you say.

Ah, but this is one of the reasons why the open source / free software
movement is so interesting: there is no clear leader and there never
can be.  There can be (and certianlly are) those who are able to
describe the movement, but none that could claim to lead it.  I'm
reminded of that 'herding cats' analogy to managing programmers... :)

Just so long as it is still 'free' and people are willing to work on
it, the loudest voice the free software community will ever have is
the software itself, good or bad.  This freedom gives it the
tremendiously unique property of being immune to: bad press, good
press, bad leaders, good leaders, bullets, monopolies, law suits, etc.

ksb

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