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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. Pornstarrish, anyone? by consonant · · Score: 5, Funny

    I *really* think Hilary Clinton's should've been advised against being a female candidate, and hosting her site via 'Rack'space.. :-D

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  2. Sourceforge project would... by croftj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lead to a project which is probably incomplete, no documentation, and maybe a tarball that won't build.

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  3. I think the revision tree by grizdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    for any political campaign would be pretty hard to keep track of. Subversion, anybody?

  4. McCain==Vista,Hillary==MacOSX,Obama==Linux by NZheretic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which means Bush W.==Windows XP, Bill Clintion==Mac OS9, and Bush Snr==Win98/96.

  5. I love LAMP by rAiNsT0rm · · Score: 5, Funny

    /that is all

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  6. Re:This doesn't look like open source politics. by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like he wants to hire someone competent to run his web server. If I were running for a major political office, I'd certainly want someone competent runing my webserver.

    Give it to Hans Reiser.

    • 1. He has the free time ...
    • 2. He can kill -9 anyone who fscks with it - what are they going to do, send him to jail?
    • 3. Like any good politician, he knows where the bodies are buried and he's not telling ...
  7. Oh boy by soccerisgod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obama -> GoDaddy

    Clinton - Rackspace

    Am I the only one who's laughing his ass off at this?

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