Obama: Open Source President?

Obama has his source code open to the public, but is programed by men behind the curtain.

I believe open source to be: revealing all information in order to expand and perfect.

obama open source? it is a nice idea for every government to do this, it creates transparency and it shifts from using only your own knowledge to using your own plus everyone else his.
it proved to be succesfull for many companies, the first I can think of are T-mobile and Nuon (battle of concepts).

I am curious about the downside...

Great that you support open source. However, the open source ethos are not socialist. Either is Obama. However, if socialism means that we look after the sick and the old and the young of our society I vote for it. But thats not what open source is.

The irony here is quite think considering how the previous President acted. I can't say that Obama will be everything he promises, but tyrant isn't a term applicable to Obama.

Libertarianism is Open Source................Obama is Authoritarianism...........and this is antithetical to open source

From what I have heard, Libertarianism is for everything becoming free-market. Using a completely capitalistic approach including patents and the like to protect groups from unfair practices: ie change 1 sentence in a book; sell it as your own.

But free/open source software is against that kind of practice. Nothing is owned so nothing can be stolen, take freely and give back freely.

Open source can't be labeled, the closest match IMHO is: Willing Socialism with an unusual free market streak.

Riiiiight... How...  Exactly? Obama wants to include us in our government. I don't see how that's tyrannical.

yup

This guy just wanted to mention that he found out what open source is. Talking for the sake of talking... great.

oh come on...he's just pround of his comparison he thought of in the middle of the night...hahaha