so, who is our "white male Unix geek"?

[Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>]

from http://www.scripting.com/davenet/ :

  We try out all the circles. Now, there's no doubt, we're trying
  out the idea of free source code. It's another fake panacea.

  It's funny to me that each of the free software worlds has a god,
  a single person (a white male Unix geek) who decides what goes in
  the official release, the one that everyone uses.

  (It's also funny that O'Reilly, the sponsor of the open source
  summit co-owns a commercial software company, ActiveState, that
  sells software that builds on the open source of Perl. Larry Wall,
  the lead developer of Perl is an O'Reilly employee. There's nothing
  wrong with any of this, of course, it just proves that the lines
  between open and closed source aren't very clear.)

  So all these bazzaar-like communities have leaders. What's so
  different about that? That's the way software has always worked.
  Someone has to make the tough calls. And the quality and intensity
  of that person determines the quality of the software. How good
  are they at listening? Only as good as a single human being can
  be.

Sheesh, can't stereotype much more than this.