[SLUG] Reith Lectures 2007

[Martin Webb]

Did anyone catch the reference to Linux in the 1st of the Reith 
Lectures, this year?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/lecture1.shtml

"We are entering I believe a new politics, and potentially a hopeful 
politics. I'm going to call it open-source leadership. If Wikipedia and 
Linux can be built in an open source manner, politics can be done in 
that manner as well."

The fact that Jeffrey Sachs mentioned only two or three analogies for 
good politics, and that one of those was Linux, is, to me, significant.

The character of Linux and its community is, for me too, a paradigm for 
other levels of organisation; and one of the reasons I was interested in 
Linux in the first place.

Martin