/prog/rider's secret society

We should create a club/lodge for programmers. If stonemasons created one many years ago just because they knew how to carve stupid stones and build some basic structures, why we still don't have one?
This is what we need:
◦ A symbol.
◦ A secret handshake.
◦ A set of rules.
◦ An unknown leader.
◦ An unknown sub-leader.
◦ A library with exceptional computer books, a printed version of world4ch's /prog/ (aka The Old Testament), ancient computers, and other relics.
◦ A list of heretic languages carved in stone.

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politicians can much more easily manipulate them into taking away computer freedom

That's a valid point. My concern is that politicians don't seem to be terribly interested in what the population is asking for as it stands now. They listen to people with power, so the best way to determine the battle's outcome is to become too powerful to ignore. The FSF is never going to have that much power, because they give their work away to evil people as well as good. They are existentially a neutral force.

I know it sounds ridiculous to talk about this on a 12-person BBS with no one important paying attention, but this is exactly the kind of place these things get started. Given the code I've seen on the /prog/ board, we've got the programmers we need, if we can just agree on something for long enough to get it done. We can gather resources and use them to further our goals. But your ten hours a week and my ten hours a week in isolation will not likely do that. It's only by working together that we are likely to make something happen.

Anyway, if you're talking about what contradicts the primary objective, then you must already be in agreement with it. The only question remaining is whether you're willing to act.