came across this tonight. i dunno what 'the scene' is. written by one of the persons who administers customize.org.

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i would like to take a moment to present to you the 12 thing s i wish to see as the foundations of the scene:

1. the scene is created by artists and hackers and only artists and hackers
2. the scene is targetted toward artists and hackers
3. the scene is dedicated to the combination of art and personal technology
4. the works of the scene should be available to all, even those too poor, or young to afford payment for professional solutions to same tasks
5. we must do everything we can to prevent strong anti-site rivalry in the major sites of the scene
6. we must do everything to foster cooperations and interworking between the various sites
7. the scene should always favor software that is free and most customizable
8. the scene should favor open source software, as it is both free and customizable
9. the scene should stay away from hardware as it.s non-free-to-copy nature makes it less available to some users
10. the scene must be as open as possible. we musn.t never forget that the same kids who just read and download today are the ones who will lead it all tomorrow
11. the scene should lean away from closed licenses. remixing should be allowed as a learning tool, as long as proper credit is given
12. the scene should foster free communication, but allow moderation of people who only post to offend
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i'm not a hacker or artist. so i guess i'm excluded.