The Zen of Pubnix

I mentioned recently that manifesto-writing seemed to be doing the

rounds in gopherspace[1], and that I had a long-abandoned stub of a

manifesto on how public access unix systems should be run sitting

around.

Somehow I recently got the idea to try to distill the core ideas I had

for this manifesto down into something pithy instead of my usual

overly verbose ramblings. So, here's a take on that, inspired by the

famous "Zen of Python"[2]:

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Small is better than huge

Distributed is better than centralised

Free is better than proprietary

Transparency counts

Uptime counts

Admins should be active community participants

Active community participants should become admins

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I don't consider this to be "finished", and if anybody wants to

suggest additions or changes, I'm happy to receive them.

[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/manifestos-r-us.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python