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The Petition was but one aspect of many that went into Liberating the source. Much preceeded it and much took place in the interim between it and actual liberation. At most, it was a tipping point. A culmination of a very long journey that even then had many miles and tasks ahead to cinch the deal.
The Honor Roll is not a history or a catalog of those who signed the Petition.
The Honor Roll is but a fairly short text of nicks of those who contributed directly and actively over the course of 6 years to sustaining the game in so many ways towards its ultimate liberation.
I have not rested on my laurels in 13 years when it comes to WZ as anyone who truly knows me in the public proceedings, as well private interactions, and has been around with any active consistency over the years, can attest. This is not about me. As I already made clear. Alex Mclean already thanked me, in the the part of source distro that was conspicuously not quoted, by my RL name, which he did on his own, unbeknowest to me until I looked at the distro he sent me. Surely, at that point, in the winter of '04 I could have walked away and rested on my laurels. Fact is, I didn't.
The vehemence of this expressed objection is interesting but comes as no suprise really.
It's quite facsile and entirely bogus to say in hindesight that you are sure someone else would have eventually done what some one in fact did.... and thus dismiss the accomplishment of that individual as of no real consequence.
Truly, there is no competition here between the pre-liberation and post-liberation eras.
It is a simple ethical and moral imperative for me. And I have no doubt that Alex Mclean would approve. It's called "bearing witness", a term I would think familiar to any with more than cursory knowledge of unfolding, organized, goal driven events and the difference between primary, secondary & tertiary sources of information.
I will post the list. What is done thereafter, if anything, is not in my hands, obviously.
I will trust that it is not generally percieved in the manner of this vehement objection, which Arthur Koestler directly spoke to when he said:
Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. ~ Darkness at Noon
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Impact = C x (R + E + A + T + E)
Contrast
Reach
Exposure
Articulation
Trust
Echo
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