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LimeWire's Mark Gorton Brings Open-Source To Urban Planning
mytrip writes to tell us that Mark Gorton of LimeWire fame is translating his knowledge from moving bits to moving people. Taking profits earned from his software business, Gorton is applying them to projects aimed at making urban transportation safer, faster, and more sustainable. "That's not the only connection between open-source software and Gorton's vision for livable cities. The top-down culture of public planning stands to benefit by employing methods he's lifting from the world of open-source software: crowdsourced development, freely-accessible data libraries, and web forums, as well as actual open-source software with which city planners can map transportation designs to people's needs. Such modeling software and data existed in the past, but it was closed to citizens. Gorton's open-source model would have a positive impact on urban planning by opening up the process to a wider audience, says Thomas K. Wright, executive director of the Regional Plan Association, an organization that deals with urban planning issues in the New York metropolitan area."
Isn't that term an oxymoron?
Free Martian Whores!
Better than a capitalist hell hole. Socialist hell holes are more equitable between demons and tortured souls.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This logic is without flaw; I forfeit the argument.
Given the state of Limewire I'm not sure I'd want them involved in Urban planning.
'And over here we have the hot teenage girl has shaking orgasm memorial park, and across the way is wicked remix plaza, and 700 fake Main streets that give you cancer if you drive on them'
I have nothing compelling to say
Do you really want to live in a city designed by a bunch of fifteen year olds whose idea of a great city is lifted from World of Warcraft?
I've always wished the Los Angeles Basin were encircled with a trench full of molten lava.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
Linux car bombs are pretty tough to do right though due to the lack of drivers.
As always, there's an appropriate xkcd for this situation. http://xkcd.com/277/
That's why it's more secure.