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Of Open Source and Open Government
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| One of the key figures in the open government
| in Australia - and indeed globally, given the
| paucity of such people - is Kate Lundy. She's
| been speaking at the Free and Open Source
| Software for Geospatial Conference 2009.
| Understandably, her talk was mostly about
| geospatial data, but there was also this nice
| section:
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| FOSS is like a living blueprint â a map if
| you will â for trust, sustainability and
| interoperability in the implementation of
| Gov 2.0 principles.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/of-open-source-and-open-government.html
Recent:
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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