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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GandhiCon</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html" title="Get a real computer!"/><link rel="next" href="gib.html" title="gib"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GandhiCon</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Get-a-real-computer-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gib.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GandhiCon"/><dt xmlns="" id="GandhiCon"><b>GandhiCon</b></dt></dt><dd><p>There is a quote from Mohandas Gandhi, describing the stages of
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establishment resistence to a winning strategy of nonviolent activism, that
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partisans of <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a> and especially
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<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> have embraced as almost an explanatory framework
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for the behaviors they observe while trying to get corporations and other
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large institutions to take new ways of doing things seriously:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
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First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
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Then they fight you. Then you win.
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</p></blockquote></div><p>In hacker usage this quote has miscegenated with the U.S military's
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<a href="http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/defcon.htm" target="_top">DefCon</a>
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terminology describing ‘defense conditions’ or degrees of war
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alert. At GandhiCon One, you're being ignored. At GandhiCon Two,
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opponents are laughing at you and dismissing the idea that you could ever
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be a threat. At GandhiCon Three, they're fighting you on the merits and/or
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attempting to discredit you. At GandhiCon Four, you're winning and they
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are arguing to save face or stave off complete collapse of their
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