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1. Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 06:32:55 JST Drew DeVault

   The thing is that if a FOSS project happened to have the ill fortune of starting its life as the side project of a Google employee, getting the obvious, straightforward answer to important governance questions requires supplicating oneself before a hulking behemoth of bureaucracy designed to spy on everyone, undermine democracy, and launder accountability for all decision-making.

   And I don't really like that!

   • Kuba Orlik repeated this.
   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 06:32:59 JST Drew DeVault

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     Before you receive your answer the bureaucracy will have to calculate the minute but measurable and nonzero opportunity cost associated with any possible profit into the indefinite future so that this can be weighed against the cost of doing the obvious, straightforward answer to the particular governance question you meekly enquired about a few years earlier.