Friday, November 7, 2008

Barack Obama - The First Open Source President?

Alex Castellanos, a CNN Analyst, discusses future President Obama's acceptance speech in relation to the definitive essay "The Cathedral and The Bazaar". He raises the question "Will Obama introduce a bottom-up government for the communication age versus the old top-down government of the industrial age?"

Interesting to me was hearing about the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) paradigm shift in a political, government leadership role by someone far outside the software world.

View the video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-4afdMalVA


The Cathedral and The Bazaar essay is available for free viewing at
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/