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BSD And Politics

Posted by emmett on from the just-another-corporate-interest dept.

qbasicprogrammer writes: "At Daily Daemon News, Josh Pennell says the Reform Party's National Primary Online Election was constantly under attack during the 72-hour election window, however IOActive (the Reform Party's hosting service)'s OpenBSD server kept the kiddies and crackers away. According to the reader comments, Ralph Nader is using BSD/OS, as is the Libertarian Party Web site. It's nice to see political parties believe in freedom of software."

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  1. Re:FWIW, by Alex+Belits · · Score: 4

    BSD/OS is definitely not BSD licensed -- it's a derivative of 4.4BSD that in its turn is a mix of BSD-licensed and other code. BSD-licensed subset of 4.4BSD (known as 4.4BSD-Lite) was used as the starting point for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, so all three are under BSD license now (to be formally correct I should add that they also contain utilities under GPL, X11, perl dual licensing and other Open Source licenses, however usable subset is under BSD license) while BSD/OS isn't.

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  2. Ehmz by Lion-O · · Score: 4
    "It's nice to see political parties believe in freedom of software."

    Do they really? Or did they just happen to have some smart people around who were able to grab the best tool for this specific job.

  3. More on the Libertarian Party Website by Elias+Israel · · Score: 4
    Not only does the LP use BSD/OS, the site itself was constructed with MySQL and PHP.

    I agree that this is not the only way (or even the best way) to choose a political affiliation.

    However, if you want to know which party "gets" the Open Source movement, there's really only one answer.

  4. They feel at home by pigpogm · · Score: 5

    Maybe politicians just feel comfortable with the innocent looking devil logo?

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  5. Re:Oh sweet Jesus Christ by scotay · · Score: 4

    Libertarians are NOT anti-poor. Libertarians don't want to throw people to the wolves. Libertarians believe the government IS the wolf!

    Libertarians want to help the poor at the local level. They don't want the federal government taking all your money to Washington with the hope that they will give it back to your community.

    If you believe the federal welfare state actually helps the poor, vote for some other party.