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Pillars of Open Government
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| As you may have noticed, I'm writing more about open government these days,
| simply because there's more to write about - and that's great.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/pillars-of-open-government.html
The Race to Be (Seen to Be) Open
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| One of the advantages of the adversarial aspect of the UK's two-party
| politics is that politicians have to compete with each other.
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| This means that when an important new meme – or fad, depending on your
| viewpoint – enters political discourse, there is a pell-mell rush to outdo
| the opposition in adopting it. This can certainly produce bad outcomes –
| trying to prove you are more dedicated to “fighting terrorism” and other such
| meaningless slogans, for example. But just occasionally, it can push
| political parties to move very quickly in the right direction.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2308&blogid=14
Recent:
Linux Monday: Political Perspectives From the Übergeeks
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| “I'm absolutely uninterested in politics,” Linus famously (well, famously if
| you're a Linux geek) said in 1999. “It was a fairly political family, so I
| may have reacted against that by being non-political.” Yet pressed a little
| further, he acknowledges leaning more left than right and has expressed
| opposition to US foreign policy of the Bush 43 administration (along with the
| rest of the civilized world).
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| As an immigrant in America, Linus has some comparative thoughts on our
| system:
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| The whole US voting system is apparently expressly designed to be
| polarizing (winner-take-all electoral system etc). To somebody from
| Finland, that looks like a rather obvious and fundamental design flaw.
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| Design flaw. Spoken like a true programmer.
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http://jdeeth.blogspot.com/2009/03/personal-politics-of-stallman-and.html
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