The Open Society

I just downloaded a new book The foundation for an open source city. One of them being Raliegh, North Carolina. He dedicates his book

For the open source, open government, and open data communities

He says this about open source

For me, open source is more that just software development. It’s a philosophy, a culture, and a framework for how to work collaboratively.

This idea is not new - Karl Popper wrote about The Enemies of the Open Society - one of whom was Plato!

Its easy to be cynical about his attitude toward openness. But I learned about this book from O'Reilly - a publisher of computer books, and many computer events. The more advanced people in the computer world, desperately want to make themselves acceptable to the better people elsewhere.

And they are painfully aware of how few computer people are this way.