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Linux Monday: Political Perspectives From the Übergeeks
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| “I'm absolutely uninterested in politics,” Linus famously (well, famously if
| you're a Linux geek) said in 1999. “It was a fairly political family, so I
| may have reacted against that by being non-political.” Yet pressed a little
| further, he acknowledges leaning more left than right and has expressed
| opposition to US foreign policy of the Bush 43 administration (along with the
| rest of the civilized world).
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| As an immigrant in America, Linus has some comparative thoughts on our
| system:
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| The whole US voting system is apparently expressly designed to be
| polarizing (winner-take-all electoral system etc). To somebody from
| Finland, that looks like a rather obvious and fundamental design flaw.
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| Design flaw. Spoken like a true programmer.
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http://jdeeth.blogspot.com/2009/03/personal-politics-of-stallman-and.html
Recent:
Barack Obama proves the power of Open Source
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| It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008
| election because his website ran open source software while John McCain's ran
| on proprietary software. But what is not a stretch at all is that Barack
| Obama's campaign built a powerful synergy between grass-roots politics and
| grass-roots technology, while presenting what many consider to be the most
| disciplined campaign of any candidate in modern history.
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http://opensource.org/node/372
Alex Castellanos: Obama the Open Source president
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| CNN analyst Alex Castellanos — one of the Republican pundits on a rather
| large team of political experts on hand on Election Day — made both a very
| interesting and poignant point about the incoming presidency and the
| possibility of its “open source” nature.
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http://larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/alex-castellanos-obama-the-open-source-president/
How Web 2.0 helped Obama win
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| It became something of a running joke that McCain talked about the need
| for ‘net neutrality’ yet wasn’t someone who even used email himself. His lack
| of technology prowess was lampooned in the press, and at the tech-savvy
| Personal Democracy Forum conference in June, Mark Soohoo, McCain's deputy
| e-campaign director, drew laughter when he said, "You don't necessarily have
| to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country ... John McCain is
| aware of the Internet."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/11/how_web_20_help.html
Will Obama be an open source president?
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| Last night during CNN's election coverage, after it was clear that Obama
| would become the country's 44th president, pundit Alex Castellanos wondered
| aloud whether the government under Barack Obama would take on some of the
| grass roots flavor that marked the President-Elect's campaign.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-529-SF-Technology-Examiner~y2008m11d5-Will-Obama-be-an-open-source-president
Obama Ubuntu
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| People from the Obama campaign have said that they use Ubuntu 8.04. It seems
| to be used nationally.
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| Does anyone know any more about the use of Ubuntu by the Obama campaign and
| can provide us with more details?
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http://boredandblogging.com/2008/10/21/obama-ubuntu/
Related:
Obama Campaign Hopes for Better Web Security
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| The requirements are pretty much what you'd read in any e-commerce security
| help-wanted ad: VPN (virtual private network) and Unix or Linux experience,
| along with a "deep understanding" of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl)
| development. And of course, the successful candidate must be willing
| to "respond off-hours to high urgency security situations."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146997/obama_campaign_hopes_for_better_web_security.html
Obama Voices Support for ODF
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| OpenDocument Format supporters are welcoming presidential hopeful Sen. Barack
| Obama's promise to put government data online in universally accessible
| formats should he be elected.ODF a National Standard in Korea
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219248,00.asp
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