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This is a little meta but: it's great how you predicted a possible unproductive line of discussion that might result from your question and headed it off with a clarification. Props for communications skills.

I'm also a little sad that this disclaimer is even needed. I think it says something about how the character of HN has changed in the last ten years--there's no longer an assumption that the people on the other end of the wire assume curiosity and good will. There's a lot more heat here these days.

That's... True about anywhere and any group of people?

> Doesn't that describe, to different degrees, a great many open source projects? Mozilla? BSDs? etc?

Or a lot of englightenment political theory about democracy and republicanism and the rule of law that all lie at the roots of most modern states?

It's one thing to meet with refutation of this philosophy. It's another thing to meet with the wired article author's incredulity & astonishment at these well established ideas.