State of The Evil, 2005
Danny O'Brien <danny@spesh.com>
(chaotic neutral)
Project "To Evil"
- An objective study of G and E in Open Source
- NPOV (just like Wikipedia)
- Not for me to say who "right" or "wrong"
- Just who "good" and "evil"
Project "To Evil"
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing."
- Edmund Burke (attrib.)
Project "Do Nothing"
- Usenet
- High traffic Mailing Lists
- Exhaustive Review of RSS Readers
Breaking The Code
- Standing idly by not as much fun as predicted
- Hypothetically, how might evil be combatted?
Problems With Fighting Evil
- How do we submit a patch?
Possible Solutions
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi or Eric S. Raymond, not sure which
Full Gandhi State Diagram
Full Gandhi State Diagram
Possible Solutions
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
Counter Arguments
Plate Tectonics
