How about this for an idea, the more you know, the more skilled you are in applying your knowledge, and the more adept you are at persuading your colleagues, then the higher you will rise in an organization. These principles alone form the basis of a system of governance. There is no nepotism, and in theory no favoritism, since all aspects of projects and work assignments are decided upon by the voting members. Wealth in the traditional sense does not come into play, since power is directly proportional to a kind of ‘intellectual capital’ you are able to build. This model, as idealistic and pie-in-the-sky as anyone could imagine, has managed to crank out the world’s most successful web-server, and industry standard software libraries for 10 years and running. The organization is called the Apache Foundation, and they own the rights to the source code.