[ale] Voting machines

[Jerald Sheets]

Therein lies the problem, though.

There were a lot of “big personalities” and “heavy hitters” in the early days who could evangelize our cause, but since OSS is largely running most enterprises now (big iron notwithstanding), there doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the number of motivated, activist voices as there were before.

—jms

> On Dec 8, 2020, at 7:57 AM, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> Avoiding the issue seems to betray the concept we hold most dear; open
> source. Free is nice, but if there is this much doubt about a closed
> source process then we must either speak up, or permanently shut up.
> No matter what the outcome of the election, and how we personally feel
> about the results, the process must be trustworthy and transparent.
> This is a perfect opportunity for Open Source advocates to sell what
> we believe in.
>