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> what “meritocracy” used non-ironically denotes is very much something which humans fundamentally do not do ... when applied to a situation where people are r
by pgeorgi 8y ago
> what “meritocracy” used non-ironically denotes is very much something which humans fundamentally do not do
... when applied to a situation where people are ranked.
The meritocracy of open source wasn't about "who gets promoted", but about the merit of the code being contributed.
It's the code that was ranked, not its authors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_... and all that.