A shared spec makes politics irrelevant
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if you can agree on a standard on a spec, it eliminates all that stuff. None of that other stuff matters. It all becomes ancillary. All that matters is the goal and the project.
Episode 45: we are pressing the flesh and kissing babies. Yeah, man. It is Friday once again (approx., from transcript intro) 01:37:38 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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What Dave finds beautiful about open source: everyone can have their own politics and get angry, but once you agree on a spec, all of that becomes ancillary. In developer calls nobody even knows the others' politics. It's about the shared vision and goal.