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The Rise of Open-Source Politics

Posted by michael on from the so-2003 dept.

Incognitius writes "There's a great article in this week's The Nation about the rise of open-source politics. Never before has the top-down world of presidential campaigning been opened to a bottom-up, networked community of ordinary voters. Applied to political organizing, open source means opening up participation in planning and implementation to the community, letting competing actors evaluate the value of your plans and actions, being able to shift resources away from bad plans and bad planners and toward better ones, and expecting more of participants in return. What do you guys think, is open source a good model for politics?"

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  1. Open Source? by Anik315 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you mean anarchist libertarian politics which has been around for quite some time.

    1. Re:Open Source? by Hatta · · Score: 2, Funny

      What do you guys think, is open source a good model for politics?"

      Sure, as long as we're allowed to fork.

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    2. Re:Open Source? by bcrowell · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not all open source nerds are extremist libertarian nutbars.
      I am an extremist libertarian nutbar open-source nerd, you insensitive clod!

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  2. Get the Facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news the Republicans launch their "Get the Facts" campaign, more at 11.

  3. Re:What I'm wondering is... by SunPin · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you compile open source politics?

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  4. NEVER! by HexRei · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never shall I allow actors, competitive or not, to evaluate the... value... of stuff.

  5. Open-source is a HORRIBLE model for politics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because of the lack of games which is what politics is all about. Until you change the market shares in playing games, MS has the best political model.

  6. Re:What I'm wondering is... by grcumb · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How do you compile open source politics?"

    Ask Diebold. 8^)

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  7. I think you want memcpy, not memset by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Think about it...

    memcpy(other_guys_ideas, my_ideas, sizeof(ideas))

    More useful than

    memset(other_guys_ideas, 0, sizeof(ideas))

    Don't you think? ... wait a minute... oh, meme set... sorry... never mind.

  8. The Rise of Open Source Politics??? by puddpunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought this was going to be a story about the Debian project :|

  9. Re:What I'm wondering is... by SlamMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you want to give 18 years olds how much power?

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  10. Re:RMS? by darnok · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think a nice way of putting it would be to say that Richard Stallman's charisma would appeal to a relatively small demographic.

    And, no, I won't put it in a less nice way, because I admire a lot of what he's done.

  11. Re:My turn to by cynical... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Then they would be identical, and no one would bother to vote.

    Why do you think the US has one of the lowest voter turnouts in the world?

  12. Re:Democrats and Republican need better candidates by blahplusplus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Many of those points sounds like the majority of american presidents ... Who'd of thought it?