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Barack Obama Proves the Power of Open Source

[ Thanks to Michael
Tiemann
for this link. ]

“For those who’d like to do their homework and
understand Castellanos’s sources, the book he references is The
Cathedral and the Bazaar. The connection between the failing
industrial model practiced by companies like Microsoft compared
with the organic open source development model is detailed in a
whitepaper I published in 2006 titled Software Industry vs.
Software Society: Who Wins in 2020?. Who knew that we’d only have
to wait two more years before the logic that paper presents would
become a mainstream explanation of a mainstream shift in American
culture, identity, politics, and economic potential?”

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