Authoritarianism of Code

• ShawIt's my belief that authoritarianism is so ingrained in the fabric of software development that it has been internalized to such a degree that even the most anti-authoritarian people cannot avoid being authoritarian.
• This essay is an attempt to outline a framework for evaluating software development practices, organizations, and communities on the basis of authoritarian and totalitarian policies and behaviors.
• My goal in writing this series of essays on authoritarianism is to give people in the software development world--and specifically in open source--the information they need