Briliant remark from Jeff in this forrest-dev thread.

It's interesting how the technical limitations of CVS access control have

shaped the sociology of open source..

Bruno and I have this ongoing discussion about humans controlling machines controlling humans controlling... ever since we had an evening out to the Matrix with the (whole!) company...

I often make the remark that to a lot of people the machine is partly dictating what can and cannot be done (ever were in some administration where some clerk just says: I cannot grant your request because I cannot enter it into 'the system')

Bruno would typically make the argument that the rule doesn't apply to him cause he can just go in and 'change the system'... Well, it turns out that even Neo has limited time, resources and/or interest and therefore will decide at some time that adapting the human to the system is just easier in achieving the bigger goal...

Hm, being able to make that decision, and control the self-adaptation is probably what will keep on differentiating humans from machines... :-)