On open source, open data, and open government

The open standards won because any kid could download the rules of the game, understand how they work, and make a contribution. — It taught us that we can make government heel.

That’s a quote from Carl Malamud, of Public.Resource.org in Washington’s I.T. Guy in The American Prospect.

Nancy Scola does a wonderful job of profiling Malamud, who is the man behind the SEC’s EDGAR system, among other services.

Malamud stands at the nexus of technology and government in a way that few others do.