" ... acknowledge the political, legal and economic as well as 
technical relevance of software code and of software standards 
processes; that software standards are policies in disguise, that 
code is law, and that our institutions exist today in the wrong shape 
to cope with creating and managing technology that serves both public 
and private interests."

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/02/yaly_osi_sympos.html

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