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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. As long as I can see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    George W. Bush's source code.

  2. Re:Here's how. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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

    You, shutting the fuck up.

    Seems you may have missed a comma in that sentence, which makes your reply completely senseless.

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