An open source value central to the Internet
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It's a value at the heart of successful open source projects. It is also at the heart of the Internet.
It's not majority rules. It's everyone agrees, or at least accepts the agreement of the vast majority.
Consensus has a bad habit of breaking down when money gets into the mix. Contracts are one replacement principle. Democracy is another. Power is a third.
But none of these alternate values deliver what consensus delivers. You realize this when consensus is lost.
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