There is this great thing in the FLOSS world called the "Community" which you may note has a capital C. It is where people interact, sometimes brilliantly, at times in what has been referred to as "Epic FAIL".

In this piece I try to explore who the community is and how people and organisations both formal and informal could interact, and what their ground rules might be in some cases, after all it would be unfair of anyone to presume that the same rule sets apply to all groups.
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So, after listening to people gripe about this story today, and yesterday, on IRC in email, on various blogs, where Mr Starks was talking about an email he received, I got to thinking. Just to give you context if you don't know what I am on about, click here.

People all around planet Earth are chatting about this story, online, in blogs, IRC . . . even over at UDS I heard it mentioned.

Firstly, is it really a story? I don't think so.

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