Events are reported with a one year distance. Among others, this allows
for the possibility of changes having been enabled in the meantime.
This study should be relevant for those wanting to know the conditions in
which critical software is created, bound to occupy ever larger segments of life,
governing ever expanding and crucial aspects of existence. Explicitly, it is not a
cryptographic analysis, does not replace it, nor does the former the ethnographic
perspective.
It will also be of interest to those who reflect about the future of free soft-
ware in the capitalistic society, where it is embedded and plays a complicated
and ambiguous role of enabling and subverting it.