[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Re: Agree with Elektra

>is slow because they are too bureaucratic and too occupied with >paperwork and their own hierarchical structure instead of developing >useful things. I like the informal character of our development. Our >research is a non-profit driven by fun and the will to empower people >around the world to improve their communication on a grass root level. >"On-line for all" is the agenda. >Of course hoity-toity people with ties, suits and long academic titles >tend to ignore a work of freaky people that don't bother about writing >texts in the style of codes of law. That's alright with me. In their >fancy-looking presentations about mesh-networks you see soldiers, tanks >and robots building a mesh on the battlefield or bugging devices for >their paranoid big-brother fantasies. I don't want to be supportive for >that kind of development. We can't avoid it because of the open nature >of open-source development. We are not doing things for our drawers or >to keep it as a secret. >>Take the development of OLSR as an example.

>new drafts about ideas that we have found not feasible in real life in >the year 2004 when we did our first tests with 20 nodes on a conference >(Wizard of OS III) in Berlin