ProudProgressive

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.
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I did some data entry at my local Barack Obama campaign office earlier this week and was pleased to note that the computers were running the Ubuntu operating system. The web browser, of course, was Mozilla Firefox. Both Ubuntu (a Linux-based operating system) and Firefox are open source software, developed in a collaborative, community model. […]

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