Obama: Open Source President?

Alex Castellanos talks on CNN at 12:10 AM CT Nov. 5, 2008 about Obama's campaign and compares it to the Cathedral and the Bazaar, and Open Source in general.

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[tranmere789]

I'm a keen Linux Ubuntu user from Finland and i hope Obama gives great boom and support to Open Source software. We don't need MS dictatorship.

[111oose]

even with the income tax their standard of living is still much higher then the average american.

But this has nothing to do with socialism, it is all about science: if you were going to invent a new type of car, wouldn't you need the blueprints of 'old cars' as study-material? but if they hide these blueprints, then you would first spend years of reverse-engineering old stuff before you could improve and add new stuff. To invent and improve, you need the source(code). and lots of brains.

[Oliver Brandt]

Linux began in Finnland by Linus Torvalds, but OpenSource began in the USA a little bit earlier by Richard Stallman.

[csper jk]

Isn't Finland where linux began? At the University of Helsinki

[merlecasey13]

This video went viral on Malabo

[Zareste]

nobody cares about criminal media anymore

[70rm3n70r]

phxfreddy <--- troll

[phxfreddy]

Obama is the first US dictator! ....he is several GIANT STEPS BACKWARDS!

...my god you idiot will believe anything.. Try Ron Paul if you want Open Source politics

[elnegrobembon]

interesting...

funny how open-source and democracy are so similar...

[Thundercross]

The grand irony is that Obama is completely cathedral-like. Even more-so than Bush was. And he's a perfect demonstration of WHY we need openness and transparency in our leadership.

[jeabo0adhd]

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