�4. Social and Political Infrastructure</h1></div></div></div><div class="simplesect"><div class="titlepage"/><p>The first questions people usually ask about free software are
"How does it work?  What keeps a project running?  Who makes the
decisions?"  I'm always dissatisfied with bland responses about
meritocracy, the spirit of cooperation, code speaking for itself, etc.
The fact is, the question is not easy to answer.  Meritocracy,
cooperation, and running code are all part of it, but they do little
to 