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Do you know who Nandor Tanczos is? Don't say maybe, because you either do, or you don't. If you said he's an MP in New Zealand, the only national legislator in the world who skateboards to work, and the only practicing Rastafarian (complete with meter-long dreads) elected to a national legislature in the world, you'd be correct. If there's a cooler Green in the world, I can't think who it might be.

For example, Nandor is all about open-source software. And it's not a new thing -- he always has been. Nandor knows a good thing when he sees it.

Open source isn't a new idea at all. Indeed, it goes back to the very scientific method itself, which hinges on peer review, or reproducibility. Other comparable practices include sharing recipes, joint car maintenance, barn raising, sheet music, traditional medicine, and word of mouth in general.

Sharing, broadly understood, will outlive hoarding. It's all but self-evident. Information, in particular, cannot be tucked away. Information is only useful insofar as it's used, and once it's used, it can't be put back. Quite to the contrary... information becomes more valuable the more it's used. So, let's use it lots. Let's share and encourage others to share as well. If there are those who won't share, well, experience will prove us right, and they will see the light sooner or later. No need to force them, or even give them a hard time. We can, of course, tell them "I told you so." :P

By the way, this blog is created and maintained exclusively with open-source (strictly speaking, free) software. My desktop is Ubuntu, my browser is Firefox, and the server runs Apache on Debian. Thanks for asking!