Perens gets it
I see that Bruce Perens is planning to stack the IETF deck. More power to him.
I have previously advocated presence on standards groups by activists as the road to many good things. I doubt there’s any shortage of smart people willing to put in the time and do the work if they could bill out the overhead.
Ah, but there’s the rub. Perens’s plan’s problem is money—at least, it is if he means it to be anything more than a one-time stunt. It costs money to make long-distance phone calls and attend meetings.
But I said that last time, too. With all the new organizations springing up around freedom-of-code, isn’t it time for one of them to pick up the ball here and start some fundraising?
Maybe Perens’s gesture will put the notion into a few more heads. Can’t be a bad thing.