Abstract: Robert J. Cooksey, I Walk the Open Road: Toward an Open Source Philosophy. This project seeks to think Open Source in a philosophical way. While some argue that the language of Open Source evades an important ethical debate concerning terms such as Free and Libre, the language of Open may involve ontological and ethical issues much deeper than are immediately apparent. This project seeks to articulate open as a virtuality that is manifesting itself in the world, as a present invisible element operating in the world. Thinking source is crucial in this investigation. Surprisingly little has been done on the idea of a source, though origin has been addressed in a number of locations, perhaps most thoroughly in Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art. Source calls for its articulation as the space of the emergent in its emergence. In the process of this articulation, the relationship between source and origin is explored. In general, the project draws strongly upon the work of Martin Heidegger, Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, and Wolfgang Schirmacher.