The term GandhiCon is a piece of hacker jargon, derived from Mohandas Gandhi's famous saying, regarding passive resistance: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", and the U.S. Government's DEFCON system of declaring alert states for nuclear war.

The term is believed to have been invented by Eric S. Raymond, but has since been taken up by others.

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