[DC LoCo] How Open are you?

[Don Posey]

Call me weird...but I'm definitely into open blouses....(apologies in
advance to the ladies)

As far as gub'mints-ABSOLUTELY.  I want to know *exactly* how efficient
they are screwing me over with my own money!

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:48 -0400, Nicholas Wheeler wrote:
> Is it wrong to be interested in a completely closed and tightly held
> ruling authority/government? :o)
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 2:49:26 pm Ted Smith wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 07:54 -0700, Sanjay Jain wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > A quick poll - Are people in this list interested in other open issues
> > too?
> >> >
> >> > Like Open society and open data?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Sanjay
> >> >
> >> >
> >> I try to stay away from the term "Open", since it's pretty vague and not
> >> very meaningful. As Kevin demonstrated, the natural meaning of "open" as
> >> in "open book" is not necessarily optimal.
> >>
> >> So no, I'm not very interested in "open" society, "open" data, or most
> >> other "open" things. I am interested in a free society, free mobility of
> >> data, and certainly free data formats. I am interested in open
> >> government, since that's a realistic meaning of the term -- government
> >> is "open" like an open book, disclosing more of its processes to public
> >> review. However, it's important to note that if we want a free society,
> >> having an open but oppressive government will not really help.
> >
> > And free culture! /me points to http://creativecommons.org
> >
> > --
> > Mackenzie Morgan
> > http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
> > apt-get moo
> >
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> Nicholas Wheeler
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./sarcasm
*Whew*.  1 hour for installation.  2 Hours for updates. Better part of a
day to install programs.  Glad I didn't use one of those klutzy linux
OS's...
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