Obama and Open Source, Take 2
Nov 13th, 2008 by nick
Last month I wrote that the Obama campaign uses open source software, and that the Obama movement itself is similar to the open source software movement.
As another piece of evidence on the campaign’s use of open source software, Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, points out that barackobama.com was built on the open source MySQL database.
I’d also like to point out an extremely interesting comment from Republican W. Wayne Liauh on the topic:
I am a life-long Republican and I voted for McCain-Palin…
But just want to mention that when I showed up at our local Republican HQ to volunteer, the stuff members wouldn’t even hear anything that is not Windows based.
Right then (& among many other things), I know the battle is over. Not just this one, but many more in the future.
Finally, it seems that I wasn’t the only one to notice the correlation between open source software and Obama’s grass-roots and people-powered campaign. Watch Republican strategist Alex Castellanos discuss the topic (thanks to Simon Phipps for the link):