Free Software for Politics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 30, 2003 @06:48AM from the unintended-consequences dept.

kevin lyda writes "The Howard Dean campaign is releasing software for web-based communities under the GNU GPL. The project apparently is based on drupal. See here for more info, and here for the software. Regardless if you're for Dean, against Dean, or you're not an American, it's great to see an American politician on the national level using and promoting free software. I wonder if RMS thought he'd see a U.S. presidential candidate releasing stuff under the GPL when he founded GNU 20 years ago!"

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Dean will do a Slashdot interview! by dowobeha · 2003-10-01 05:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

**********PLEASE READ THIS POST****************
I spoke with Joe Trippi, the campaign manager, and he said that Dean would do a /. interview if I could arrange it.
Rob, or whoever else is out there... might this be possible? I submitted an interview request on the story submission page and it got rejected.
Maybe someday....

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