"The open source model is not a democratic model. It is the combination of community and hierarchy that makes it work. Community without hierarchy means mediocrity." [My emphasis]
News of Wikipedia's Death Greatly Exaggerated, by Clay Shirky
This is challenging to the hard core libertarians of the world that would just as soon see the government go away. Pure democracy doesn't work and gets us things like urban sprawl.
It's also very challenging to the public education establishment that emphasizes fairness over excellence. Excellence will always result in hierarchy, and they resent that.
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Libertarians oppose democracy.
They believe in using democratic voting processes, but only on a narrow set of issues about how to perform the few legitimate roles of government.
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