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[ale] Open Source Campaigning in the Democratic Race!!
- Subject: [ale] Open Source Campaigning in the Democratic Race!!
- From: timtw at earthlink.net (Tim Watts)
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:21:52 -0400
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Maybe. But I think that kind of association muddles the meaning of open source
which, in the end, does a disservice to the movement. Open source is to class
as fruit is to paint.
On Monday 17 March 2008 11:26 am, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I was listening to a political news show this morning and they were
> interviewing the author of "Rise of the Creative Class".
>
> He said that:
> Clintin was running a PC style campaign to appeal to the working
> class, and that Obama was running a Open Source style campaign to
> appeal to the creative class.
>
> He also said this was the first class based election since 1932.
>
> I was really surprised to hear conversation like that in a interview
> aimed at the general public. Nice to see concepts like Open Source
> getting out there.
>
> Greg
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"Absolute security comes with chains."