The Software Politics Of 2004's Presidential Race

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 4, 2004 @11:43PM from the which-skull-and-bones-member-do-you-prefer dept.

mjamil writes "The NYT(free registration required) has an article talking about the polarized use of OSS in the building of campaign Web sites. Specifically, it states that the sites for John Kerry (Democratic candidate for President) and the Democratic National Committee are built using OSS, while the site for President Bush's re-election campaign uses IIS. Linus and ESR are quoted. It's an interesting look at how even presidential politics are no longer immune to the free software war (free as in beer)." (David Brunton, pictured in the article, wrote to say "Now I'm going to go call my mom... won't she be proud? For all those girl geeks and gay geeks out there, I'm already taken, but it is an awful nice picture, isn't it?")

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Michael Badnarik by Stile+65 · 2004-07-04 23:51 · Score: 4, Interesting

The Libertarian presidential candidate's websites are running FreeBSD and Windows 2003. Interesting. :>

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What OS does Kerry or Bush use? by tritone · 2004-07-05 00:04 · Score: 4, Interesting

That would be more revealing than what their websites run on. To the best of my recollection, Kerry didn't answer the question "Mac or PC?" at a debate among the democratic contenders (Al Sharpton was the only Mac user). I also recall reading that Bush used a Mac, and that he used to be an enthusiastic emailer until he was informed that records would be kept of all his email. I may be wrong about all this. Maybe someone could provide better info.