I'm familiar with the open source community late in the nineties as Linux becomes popular and loved the spirit of the people back then. With Bitcoin it is a bit comparable but the difference Bitcoin is money and money has a attraction for a special kind of people which I don't like so much.
Greedy humans which has no mind for public weal and which are seeking always their personal advantage. I won't talk about socialism but a healthy community needs ethics and people which live out these ethics. In the last months Bitcoin went more and more in the direction of these people.
This is my own feeling if I read the topics in the forum. There are a few people and companies which live the spirit of open source and combine it with the nature of money which is well because we all need money for living. But the massive amount of people in this forum which are seeking permanently opportunities to make a quick (dirty) Bitcoin sucks really!
So what should the goal of the Bitcoin open source community be? What are their aims for the next year? I'm still missing a kind of masterplan because a community need this to grow up even if this community is distributed like Bitcoin.
Thoughts are welcome.
Cheers!
The goal: Freedom from the control of greedy people. Bitcoin is a tool to make a direct payment without the need of a "middleman". When a
small group of middlemen have taken fees while they take control over a
large group of people the outcome is repeating economic depressions. Men can not handle too much power.
Bitcoin is not going to solve greed, but it can bring more freedom. As a spoon is not to be blamed for making people fat, Bitcoin is not to be blamed for making people greedy.