A thought experiment with Open Source

With Christmas coming the model train analogy is timely. Take a minute to imagine, along the lines of his example with model trains, other systems you use that could be open source. As a teacher, I want to share examples of good news and bad news (I teach journalism) with students. Imagine a system where I could easily locate the content snippets, whether they were from free broadcast, cable, radio, Internet and then just be able to show them to my class so we could study them. Yes, once you start, it makes you wonder "why not?"openscource