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runningbird · 03-13-2009, 04:54 PM

I was inspired by Douglas Rushkoff's idea of Open Source Democracy; having a government and legislation built on the model of open source software. How many people are oppressed by linux, for example? If you don't like something, you can just change it. But how many people are oppressed by Windows? Well, its resource intensive so you have to pay more on computers, it is susceptible to identity theft, susceptible to viruses, etc.

I don't know exactly how this translates to individual action with government.

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runningbird Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 614	I was inspired by Douglas Rushkoff's idea of Open Source Democracy; having a government and legislation built on the model of open source software. How many people are oppressed by linux, for example? If you don't like something, you can just change it. But how many people are oppressed by Windows? Well, its resource intensive so you have to pay more on computers, it is susceptible to identity theft, susceptible to viruses, etc. I don't know exactly how this translates to individual action with government.