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=== [[politics as usual]] ===
=== [[politics as usual]] ===


Eventually this will become the nastiest form of politics imaginable, as the [[Consumerium buying signal]] starts to change people's [[buying habit]]s and [[individual buying criteria]], and as [[institutional buying criteria]] start to exclude, systematically, whole classes of products and services.  [[Funded troll]]s can be expected to pile in, and gleefully use every trick in and out of the [[trollbook]] to steer development towards things in their funders' favour, and away from things they want "not done".  Including [[Consumerium:itself]] which trolls who are funded by (insert [[bad company]] here) ''must'' destroy.
Eventually this will become the nastiest form of politics imaginable, as the [[Consumerium buying signal]] starts to change people's [[buying habit]]s and [[individual buying criteria]], and as [[institutional buying criteria]] start to exclude, systematically, whole classes of products and services.  [[Funded troll]]s can be expected to pile in, and gleefully use every trick in and out of the [[trollbook]] to steer development towards things in their funders' favour, and away from things they want "not done".   


Given the contention success will cause, its best to think of the [[Develop Wiki]] as a very [[political wiki]] on day one, more so even than the [[Research Wiki]].  A good list of [[wiki best practice]]s appropriate to these is at [[DoWire]] [http://dowire.org/wiki .org]:
Given the contention success will cause, its best to think of the [[Develop Wiki]] as a very [[political wiki]] on day one, more so even than the [[Research Wiki]].  A good list of [[wiki best practice]]s appropriate to these is at [[DoWire]] [http://dowire.org/wiki .org]:
*[http://dowire.org/wiki/wiki_best_practice dowire.org wiki best practice] list
*[http://dowire.org/wiki/wiki_best_practice dowire.org wiki best practice] list
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