The world of politics now operates based on open source principles. The gate to power has been crashed. The world of journalism increasingly operates based on open source principles. Despite the lack of money in it. The world of music is in the process of being transformed. So is every other industry where the power of thought is important, and the cost of disseminating thought is a barrier.
The real problem here is not the Internet. The real problem is parents who don't want their children, or your children, to learn anything they disagree with.
A lot of bloggers are writing about Richard Cohen these days. Gene Lyons (in the link above) speculates he’s a crybaby. Atrios says the real problem is he’s gutless, and an enabler of the Bush Administration. After nearly 30 years on various beats, I think they’re both wrong. Richard Cohen sees his life under threat. […]
This is the big one. First, let’s remember a few facts about 1966. Ronald Reagan was nobody, well nearly nobody. He was an out-of-work actor who had hosted a TV show, "Death Valley Days," and made one speech of importance. In that speech, he nominated a man for President who would get just 39% of […]
It’s the business model, stupid. The open source business model is better for the economy. Selling services and support, showing your source code and giving it away, works. You can make money that way. But you don’t make as much money. The economy grows but you, the maker of the software, don’t make as much […]
It’s official. Net neutrality is now a partisan issue. Someone tell Instapundit. And the Gun Owners. This is something I predicted a while ago, but it does not necessarily please me. It would be better to win. Democrats are the minority party. By turning this into a partisan issue, Democrats practically guarantee the defeat of […]
A lot lower. Even liberal pundits have been recently amazed at how low the President’s approval rating has gotten. One report had it as low as 29%. The very worst approval rating for Richard Nixon, they note, was 26%. And that was right before he resigned. But in fact the Bush approval rating can go […]
If being right were all that mattered in Washington, Jimmy Carter would have served two terms.
The leaders of the open source movement are those people and companies who give the most to it before they try to take anything out of it. This is a fact that has been dawning very slowly in the industry, where many "mixed source" offerings have gone nowhere, and lost their chance to catch on.
Precursor is a good candidate for this. It exited the independent research business in January, and said that it would instead provide "its high value research to a more limited number of clients."
