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White House Website Switches To Open Source
Falc0n writes "WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software. Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: 'this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.'"
Now they're locked in to PHP.
It's part of Obama's economic recovery program. Just think how many IT jobs this will create: maintenance, debugging, modifications, and security. Maybe we could have a Slashdot poll on who will pwn the website first. I think it'll be the Chinese as payback for the tariffs on tires.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
I wish they used something Python based:
def askPresidentQuestion(q):
if president == "Bush":
misSpeak()
elif president == "Obama":
pass
In other words, what did they switch from.
They switched from capitalism to communism, silly.
"His name was James Damore."
I make my own fucking ELECTRONS!
If your security beliefs are based on Googling " exploit" I hope you're not in charge of anything important.
You're right. Block port 80, that'll stop 'em.
Security isn't exactly a priority for drupal either, it's almost added as an afterthought.
not any more!!
You're assuming an unusually high level of competence in government IT departments.
May the Maths Be with you!
Actually, it's www.whitehouse.gov for the Obama administration. I'll let it slide though; as long as you don't confuse it with whitehouse.com - not linkified for a very special reason....
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
I work for the government, and uh, bullshit.
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Those who haven't had a hand or two blown off by Obama's cluster bombs, that is...
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I clearly remember the days before CMS and it looked like this
Ha! The planetarium scheduler for the the school I work at has an HTML file she edits in Word to create the current month's calendar. This file has been used for some 2-3 years. Pulling it up right now, it is 682 KB in size and has over 6,000 lines of CSS at the top of the document. Here's a snippet:
The actual body of the document is about 400 lines of the most awful HTML table markup the universe has ever seen.
To see this file in its entirety is a most humbling experience.
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