DISQUS

The Marketing Technology Blog: Is the next President of the United States running Linux?

  • Douglas Karr · 2 years ago
    You can Digg this post here.
  • ck · 2 years ago
    I predict you're wrong. I see one of three people winning, Clinton, Fred Thompson, or Gingrich. The Obama stuff just can't stand in the backwoods of many states, 'ole JR isn't going to vote for him.

    So that leaves the three I listed, all Windows folks. What I find funny is that the two Republican guys I listed haven't even declared yet.
  • Douglas Karr · 2 years ago
    I hope you're wrong on 2 of those 4 predictions, ck. I don't want to tell you which 2, though! I like being independent and complaining about all of them equally.

    ;)
  • Adam Teece · 2 years ago
    I hope they come up with a simple chart detailing all of the candidates and what their stances on each of the major issues are. It is a bit of a pain going through to each website and reading everything. I like a few of the candidates, but each one has a stance on one or two of the issues that I really don't like.
  • Douglas Karr · 2 years ago
    Adam,

    I'm not sure it would ever be the goal of any political candidate to make it easier to find their stance.

    :)

    Doug
  • Adam Teece · 2 years ago
    I know the candidates would never do it, but it might make a useful Wikipedia page.
  • Douglas Karr · 2 years ago
    Adam,

    That's a fantastic idea. I can't imagine all the attention a page like that would get. Wikivote!

    I noticed the Wikipedia pages for the Candidates right now are changing non-stop. There is a collective article on the 2008 elections there, too. There are links to each of their Wikipedia pages as well as their official campaign sites.

    Doug
  • JoshJ · 2 years ago
    www.ontheissues.org has a voting history and policy stance of every candidate in the running for the 2008 election, as well as every Senator and Representative.
  • CJ · 2 years ago
    There's also this site to see whom you most closely align with: http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html
  • Matt B. · 2 years ago
    Very interesting. I wonder how much attention their campaigns paid to the actual platform on which their site operates.

    It would be very interesting to see if candidates have received political donations from companies such as Microsoft, Red Hat, etc.
  • Douglas Karr · 2 years ago
    I wonder the same thing, Matt. Especially since many of the candidates switched platforms - I'm curious what the driver was to make the switch.
  • Natron · 2 years ago
    Yet another reason to vote Democrat!
  • Jack Book · 2 years ago
    wow.. digged!
  • Planet Malaysia · 2 years ago
    The candidate don't care what is Windows, Linux or FreeBSD :P
  • pfarrell · 2 years ago
    Given McCain's support for Steve Ballmer it's not much of a shock he's running Windows.

    Also, if you're going to include Al Gore and Fred Thompson, then how can you forget Al Sharpton - Windows 2000, NeoSpire Inc

    Perhaps he should upgrade :)
  • Kahlil · 2 years ago
    Forget the democrats! Greens want open-source voting software!
  • Shahryar Ghazi · 2 years ago
    interesting observation... thanks for sharing this with us
  • Colin Baker · 2 years ago
    23 is a tiny, meaningless sample size, and it's silly to draw any conclusions from this. Now if you include, say, all of the US Senators and Congressmen, that could be interesting.
  • Kyle · 2 years ago
    In the last election the owner of XMission (a local isp) ran for senate. He's been a long time supporter of Linux. We have a hotly contested mayoral election in Salt Lake City this year. He asked each candidate to answer a survey that he then posted on his blog. One of the questions pointed out that each candidate had endorsed buying local. He then asked where their website was hosted. It was interesting to read some of the candidates trying to dodge the question. Soon they'll hopefully come to realize that these things can really matter.
  • Daniel · 2 years ago
    Hillary is not MS-only, http://connect.hillaryclinton.com/ runs on Java.
  • Lol · 2 years ago
    ROFL, the most stupid comparison ever! Very funny, keep going!:) At least I hope it was a joke ....
  • Phillistine · 2 years ago
    Dude,

    What are you trying to do ?

    I hope you realize you have symbolically painted a target on yourself by doing this.

    I found the article rather amusing and actually interesting since you have put an entirely new twist to the election debate.

    As mentioned by the previous poster, I hope it was more done in jest ....
  • Mike Schinkel · 1 year ago
    Quick! Get this man a sense of humor!
  • Douglas Karr · 1 year ago
    Seriously! I guess I've derailed all of American politics by revealing this information. :)
  • Copie · 2 years ago
    Could some one please help me.
    I am looking for an email address for the US Presidential Candidates to enable me to send them a Blessing from God certificate from the website www.godsblessingsforyou.com
    I am confident that candidates who receive a Blessing from God will find that it provides a great boost to their confidence.

    A supporter
  • Listener · 2 years ago
    I don't know about USA but in Russia I think Linux will be national operating system because of free.
  • Lucas · 2 years ago
    I don’t know about USA but in Russia I think Linux will be national operating system because of free.

    I can agree with following opinion !! It is free and very well protected !

    Regards
    Lucas
  • T.Amoth · 2 years ago
    Don't forget 1 of the 1st things the Bush administration did after getting into office was to essentially railroad through a settlement of the anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. Last I heard Mass. was still suing MS, but the other states settled... Funny how we don't seem to have heard anything for a long time...
  • Make An Informed Vote · 2 years ago
    That makes for some useful information, though I hope nobody bases their vote simply on the OS of a candidate's server.
  • Movie Girl · 1 year ago
    I think Linux is the OS of the future. But it's still a little bit hard in use. I'll surely move to Linux when it become as easy in use as Windows do.
  • Listener · 1 year ago
    Movie Girl, Linux already have good user interface and it is very easy to use it.
  • Omi Azad · 1 year ago
    Very nice article. People must vote for Linux users. :)
  • John Carlsen · 1 year ago
    Very interesting post and discussion.

    FYI: I've adapted and updated the info and posted tables at Presidential Candidates' Web Site Types.
  • Lucas · 1 year ago
    Nice article thx a lot :) Very interesting
  • Martin Weiss · 1 year ago
    Hi Doug,

    I found a related article on Jeremy Zawodny's blog,

    comparing page loads of the remaining candidates.
  • Ken O'Brien · 1 year ago
    Barack is my boy. FreeBSD, I'm impressed. I love that the democrats are on the opensource bandwagon.
  • favor · 1 year ago
    WOW, very intresting article you posted.
    I will vote for Linux user :)
  • Mike Schinkel · 1 year ago
    Just goes to show that Hillary really was a closet Republican after all... ;-)