President Obama uses Open Source
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Obama has become an icon. Kenya, has declared Wednesday, the day after Obama defeated McCain in a ‘land slide’ victory, a National Holiday!
Obama is one smart cookie. He has made more people cry then any other president. I for one cried when he came on stage after defeating McCain on election night, 2008. This is a man for humanity and is for the people, at large.
Guess what software he used to power his campaign?
Obama used Open Source, across the board.
McCain used Closed Source.
This is not to say Obama won the election because of F/OSS and Linux running his campaign Web Sites — although it would be awesome to be able to make that claim — but the fact is he did.
Now, Open Source is being mentioned on CNN! The news reporter, one of their Tech News Guys, started to actually reference The Cathedral and the Bazaar. That is huge. Although, most people would not know what all this talk of Cathedral and Bazaar business was, but the fact it is self aware, at least by some of those that work in huge TV News stations, like CNN, that are seeing F/OSS spread like wild fire into even elections.
Check this article out, which includes the YouTube Video of the CNN clip.
Simply amazing, for all us F/OSS geeks.