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Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers

Posted by kdawson on from the choosing-sides dept.

kgamiel writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).

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  1. What's wrong with you people?! by mike_sucks · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Is everyone in the US so effing polarized that you can even get your website hacked by someone supporting a person you're running against, /even if they are in same party/?! This isn't democracy, it's a slum.

    What gives here, honestly? It's /just/ a presidential nomination, not an attack on freedom or something.

    If you spent half the effort on real problems that you spend electing a leader for your arrogant little country, the world be be such a better place.

    Christ, _just get along_.

    *frustrated*

    /Mike

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    -- "So, what's the deal with Auntie Gerschwitz et all?"
  2. Re:Our generation is coming up by iroc409 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Congratulations, you bit hook line and sinker.

    All of the candidates, including Obama, aren't going to do the US any favors.

    They are going to further our plunge into government dependence, they are going to further our national debt obscenely, and they are going to continue to take away from our personal freedoms.

    All of them. No, it's not for the greater good.

    The Democrats will remove your freedoms by forcing on you what they think is good for you, by taking away your means to protect you and your families, by forcing your diets and lifestyles. They will continue to push social spending (which is about 2/3 of our national budget).

    The Republicans will continue the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, stepping on every other privacy an right that the Democrats forgot.

    Change? Yeah, we'll have change.

    Americans are NOT Europeans. Our attitudes are different, our cultures are different, our way of life is different. I guess I just have to learn to be content with the fact that I'm a drone for the greater good, and not and individual. Foreigners often talk about how lazy Americans are, people like Hillary and Obama are only going to help breed them.

  3. Re:Sourceforge project would... by megaditto · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hug the tarball baby?

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    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  4. Re:Oh God by Wolfier · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    To the likes of you, Lawrence Lessig has this to say:

    http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/02/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html