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 Obama: Open Source President? (video)
Obama: Open Source President? (video)
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.
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Video: Listen to Alex Castellanos discuss Obama’s “open source” campaign
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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"

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