[Poll] Would You Spend Part of Your Weekend to Read "The" Niccolo Machiavelli Book on FOSS DevOps in Today's World?

Note: I asked Grok to provide the chapters, and their themes. My "prompt" is at the bottom.

[from Grok] Here is a fictional, satirical reconstruction in the spirit of Niccolo Machiavelli applied to modern FOSS, as requested. It is written from the perspective of a time-displaced Machiavelli who must make a Linux-based public-domain project succeed through pragmatism, power analysis, and deep skepticism of professed virtue.

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Title: The Killer Public Domain App
Or, How a Prince of Code Secures Dominion Over the Repository and Delivers Working Software to the People

Chapter 1: Of the Nature of Projects and Why They Fall
Theme: Most FOSS projects fail not from lack of talent, but from mistaking proclamations of purity for actual power. The wise maintainer studies what men do, not what they say about justice, safety, or inclusion.

Chapter 2: Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared as a Maintainer
Theme: Love is fickle and depends on the mood of contributors. Fear of having one’s poorly reasoned or ideological pull request rejected preserves order. The effective leader is feared for technical rigor more than loved for agreeable manners.

Chapter 3: On the Use of Virtue-Signaling and Why It Must Be Distrusted
Theme: Those who loudly proclaim the “One True Safe Language,” moral purity, or social causes often seek status and control rather than reliable code. Treat such proclamations as potential weapons aimed at the project’s usefulness; measure every proposal by whether it ships working software to ordinary users.

Chapter 4: How Corporations Support Linux While Keeping Ordinary Users Dependent
Theme: Great companies fund and praise open source not from altruism, but to shape it toward their own infrastructure needs, cloud lock-in, and talent pipelines. The prudent prince accepts their resources while guarding against subtle sabotage of desktop usability, simplicity, and independence.

Chapter 5: Of Codes of Conduct and the Acquisition of Power Through Rules
Theme: Rules written in the language of safety and kindness can become instruments for purging dissenters and consolidating influence. A shrewd leader either writes the rules himself or keeps them narrowly focused on technical contribution and basic civility, never on political orthodoxy.

Chapter 6: Why the Masses Prefer Working Software Over Ideological Purity
Theme: Ordinary computer users care little for the internal moral theater of developers. They reward projects that are reliable, fast, and usable. The prince who prioritizes their actual needs over the applause of activist contributors will ultimately hold more durable power.

Chapter 7: On the Art of the Fork as Both Threat and Salvation
Theme: The ability of others to fork is both a check on tyranny and a tool the prince may use. Maintain sufficient excellence and usefulness that forks wither; when necessary, threaten or execute a fork yourself to reassert technical priorities over captured governance.

Chapter 8: How to Handle Idealists, Careerists, and the Truly Competent
Theme: Idealists are useful for enthusiasm but dangerous when they sacrifice reliability. Careerists follow whatever brings status. The competent few who simply want the code to work are the true foundation of the project - cultivate, protect, and promote them ruthlessly.

Chapter 9: Of Appearances and the Necessity of Seeming Virtuous While Acting Effectively
Theme: It is often necessary to speak the language of openness, collaboration, and progress while quietly enforcing merit, rejecting unproven ideological mandates, and focusing on delivery. Appearances maintain alliances; results maintain the project’s life.

Chapter 10: Exhortation to Liberate the Desktop and Deliver the Killer Public Domain App
Theme: The final duty is not to win arguments inside foundations or conferences, but to place powerful, simple, reliable tools in the hands of ordinary people. Fortune favors the maintainer who treats skepticism of altruistic claims as a survival skill and judges every decision by whether the software actually serves users rather than the virtue of its creators.

This is presented purely as the creative hypothetical you requested - Machiavelli’s classic realpolitik lens applied to contemporary FOSS culture and power dynamics.

[My Prompt] Hypothetical: Niccolo Machiavelli time travels to present, and ends up needing to "fix" a Linux FOSS project to "Save Himself." He sees the Woke "Virtue Signal DevOps" sacrificing Reliable Code for "The One True Safe Programming Language", and is certain Globalist Corporations "support" Linux for their own benefit, but sabotage Linux usefulness for ordinary computer users. Instead of "The Prince", provide 10 chapters and their themes in the Machiavelli book "The Killer Public Domain App" where he makes FOSS work, often through skepticism of others' altruistic proclamations.