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41	41	A lot of the candidates statements say they want to increase membership and funding. OK, that's obviously good for most organizations, but what are we going to //do //with it? I'd encourage those folks to go back to their pages and write more about //policy.// There //is //a lot of it that we should be working upon.
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	44	+== Open Cars ==
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	46	+According to the major automobile manufacturers, the car of the future will have its hood locked so that only the dealer can maintain it, and you'll only //lease //it, so that the real owner will be the one maintaining the self-driving computer that you won't be allowed to touch, etc. Well, that takes care of the 1%, but what about the rest of us? My research on Open Cars is charting that direction. What if we split the automobile and the self-driving and telematics systems, giving you //plugs //and //standards //so that you could buy the car and its guiding computer separately, in a competitive market? My [[first paper on the topic>>url:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837598]], written with a law professor at Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law), has been published in the //Berkeley Technology Law Journal.//
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44	44	== We Need to Have Fun, Too ==
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46	46	A lot of Open Source is developed by people on their own time, and even the ones who get paid spend a lot of their personal energy, credibility, and their career direction on Open Source. We need to keep it fun for them, or they won't work. They need to be helped in whatever way they can be, their work needs to be made easier wherever we can, and they need to be //appreciated //for their work. We need companies to treat them well, not exploit them. So, I lobby and educate in their interest, and spend some time on stage giving them reasons to feel good about their work (like this: do you know just how much Open Source is on the //Falcon 9?// Actually a lot, and there's even Open Hardware!).