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Will open source change Canada? Democratizing sustainable housing in Canada (part 2)

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Red Hat Magazine; By Matt Munóz
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Will democratizing sustainable housing be enough to change Canada? It’s too early to tell, but there’s a start. Open source can make sustainable designs available. Nobody owns it, everybody can use it, and anybody can improve it. The Now House is one sustainable housing design project created by one small team. What would happen if one hundred teams created projects like this?

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Here is the link for part 1: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/24/democratizing-susta...

Damn Hippies better stay in Canada! If they come to the usOFa we might have more things like the story on Fark about the farmer who dies and all the neighbors show up to get the crops harvested.

Now, how do we take the spirit of "Open Source" and apply it to the things that are important in our lives?

Having lived long enough to learn that the things we do with and for other people, without the corp/gov hand on the tiller, last longer, are cheaper and sure as hell work better. Such as Linux?

Where is my "Open Source" search engine? TV programs as "wikis"? "Open Source" cars? Come on, you have the answers, share them.

Quoting:Where is my "Open Source" search engine?


Well, there's Nutch... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutch Unfortunately it's not for Java haters ;)

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