youtube.com - 11/6/2008
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Alex Castellanos talks on CNN at 12:10 AM CT Nov. 5, 2008 about Obama's campaign and compares it to the Cathedral and the Bazaar, and Open Source in general.
newsweek.com - 11/5/2008
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newsweek.com —
The computer systems of both the Obama and
McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by...
an unknown "foreign entity," prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today. At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology ...
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Highlights: Newsweek's Special Election Project | ...
change.gov - 11/7/2008
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change.gov —
Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key
reason the Internet has been such a success is...
because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the ...
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isobamapresident.com - 11/4/2008
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Video: Listen to Alex Castellanos discuss Obama’s “open source” campaign
SiliconBeat » O’Brien —
A Republican Reference to Obama as Open Source President [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
If you've been around open source very long, you're probably familiar with Eric Raymond's famous tome The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It discusses, in Raymond's own words, "the 'cathedral' model of most of the commercial world, versus the 'bazaar' model of the Linux world." In it, Raymond also argues that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." If you saw the election night coverage on CNN, did you happen to catch the reference to this piece of writing and the open source movement? Here's what was said.
The reference on CNN to The Cathedral and the Bazaar came from Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant ...
Republican pundit pushes Obama as open source, chides the "old Microsoft way"
The Open Road —
Republican pundit pushes Obama as open source, chides the "old Microsoft way"
Note to Obama: Consider the Open Source Way
LinuxInsider —
The advantages of open source Linux MPS Pro Focus on Your Business Not Your IT Infrastructure. Latest News about open source , standards and methodologies have been working their way to the surface for the past few years. Whereas in the past, open source projects were more likely to be described as fledgling efforts that lagged far behind proprietary counterparts, "open source" has become a buzzword with more positive than negative connotations. While we in the software business have complex and nuanced definitions and understandings of the term, the media, politicians and other offline audiences have tend to have a less sophisticated ...
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