[Brutha]

Brutha, but isn't post-dictator justice too late?

There will be always people who violate the law. In a society where there a rule of law those people who violate them will be punished.
The punishment will show politicians that there aren't above the law. Otherwise politicians will continue to think that they are above the law and can do everything when they think that the action is the right thing to do.

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.

The open source model of software development is that you have benevolent dictators who direct open source projects.

If one benevolent dictator doesn't do what the users want those can go and form another open source community.
States need a monopole on violence on the area that they govern. You simply can't have multiple states competing on the same area against each other and not expect to see blood. Especially if they are each ruled by "benevolent" dictator.

For that matter laws are already "open source". All laws are public and there nothing that prevents France to implement laws that exist in Germany.

If you argue that every citizen can choose which laws to follow laws use there meaning.
If everybody can choose whether murder is forbidden for him the concept of a law loses it's sense.

Additionally discussing the ideological concept of applying open source to government is just distraction if you aren't even willing to put a simple concept like the rule of law into practice.
If you aren't willing to do something in practice those people with the power in society will rule as they please regardless of your ideology and you are tolerating it.

But maybe I'm just behind the time and still believe in things like laws to rule society from the center...