<h2 class="entry-title"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://rss.slashdot.org/%7Er/Slashdot/slashdot/%7E3/302335667/article.pl">Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers</a></h2><div class="entry-author"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Frss.slashdot.org%2FSlashdot%2Fslashdot" class="entry-source-title" target="_blank">Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters</a></span> by <span class="entry-author-name">kdawson</span></div>
<div class="entry-body"><div><div class="item-body"><div>kgamiel
writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the
Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to
wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward
the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both
sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And
philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a
competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another
reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security
expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site
(Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS
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-----------------------------------------------------<br><br>Some Interesting questions. What would be the effect of FLOSS community sponsoring a political Election candidate ? <br>Would this support bolster support against software patents ?<br>
Would it be a intresting battle ground of FLOSS against Proprietary Business ?<br><br></div></div></div></div>azmodie<br>-- <br>Umbrella Corporation :-<br>"They are the fear within all of that there is a company. The Corporation controlling everything that is Umbrella.<br>
A combination of Microsoft and the US Military. At some level there is a board of directors who meet once a<br>month and decide all of our fates."<br>-- Jeremy Bolt - Producer - Resident Evil : Apocalypse