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I'm thinking about Maw Gergel's Isopropyl book, and how in the 1960'sthey basically threw dangerous chemical waste out the window or buried it after a fire, scarring a kid.

That's the state of our industry today. In some ways, Open source seems among the better students of the class. In other ways, Open source is like a million people each contributing a few parts to a society critical factory, nobody noticing how big we grew. Of course that makes people uneasy.

I think something like this is unavoidable. How to get the max impact with minimal overhead is the most important discussion now, so I applaud apache's initiative.



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