The Obama campaign has a position statement on technology and innovation which contains the intriguing promise to make “government data available online in universally accessible formats.” It sounds like he is referring to a format such as ODF that can be read by open-source programs like Open Office. If this were true, it would put some more momentum into the open source movement, and chip away at the monopoly enjoyed by MicroSoft, and despised by the rest of us. Score one for the Obama campaign!
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November 25th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Gosh! spare me that one.
Obama representing the suppressed, the sure loser against Hillary the shining knight in the armouress of propreitery software defending the “Whiteness”…
It is bad press for open source for all I can say. Considering the “whiteness” of usa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies
Regards
Rajagopal
PS. Apologies to white non-supramacists who made F/OSS happen.