very bad connotations here, possibly due to british in the background
-- second class citizens, penal colony, uncivilized

Possibly outpost or frontier is closer to what you are looking for.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ant colonies are a good analogy for open source software, actually. That's
> one of the themes. The other theme is human colonies - e.g. think about the
> mutualism involved in the way the antarctic research outpost is run. Shared
> effort, shared benefit.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hmmm. GMail is being a little weird. That whole thing should be one post
>> that says:
>>
>> -1
>> Not a big fan, makes me think of ants.
>>
>
>
> 

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