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this week I really appreciated Beth Noveck’s Ted talk on why the government
should be more open sourced. I really like the whole open source movement. When
I think of open source I think of Wikipedia and how anyone can add to a topic
that they think they know about. Obviously there are Wikipedia editors that
monitor this and make sure it’s relevant, correct information, otherwise it
could be seen as a joke. I think that Wikipedia gets a bad rap for not being a
reliable source of information because of their open source policy but I think
that just ridiculous. We all have voices and brains that matter. And I think it
would be a great thing if the government were more open source. We are the
people that are affected by the laws that the government establishes so why
shouldn’t we have a say in how they are created. I have also been learning a
lot about open source in my 3d printing class. It’s a cool thing that people
can create, share, alter, and remix these codes to make something unique. Why not add this idea to the government that controls what we do?
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