An interrogative exercise on Open Source Philosophy.

Slashdot: Being an independent thinker (with a sad propensity for reinventing the wheel,) I sat down to try and formalize my idea of Open Source philosophy. I wrote down three things before I got around to looking at what was already written in Wikipedia. Herein I list them: 1. Information sharing is White Hat. In contrast Black Hat is technocratic. 2. By application, collaboration takes precedence over commercial interests. 3. Chain of Command should be addressed as part of the discussion. I'll inventory for you what I have on my mind, and hope you will observe that it leads into a discussion of Open Source with regard to Security interests. The Military practices Chain of Command, with self-consistent interest as I will show. Despite this, Chain of Command (C of C) is nevertheless subject to an abuse. A cult organization may exhibit reporting behavior along a hierarchical C of C. Under these circumstances any privileged information some particular member of this cult may become party to is subject to question. The integrity of the security process is compromised by suspicion that this privileged information may fall directly into the hands of the leadership at the top of the hierarchical C of C. Any religious application of this discussion should not neglect to include the Roman Catholic Church. I address religious application, because cults are usually religious in nature. Open Source has hitherto averred away from C of C, politically, but we are all familiar with the problems of Version maintenance and Update distribution. As Ben Franklin said, "I apologize because I have not had time to be brief."