(2003-12-24) Open Source Campaign Ware

Chris Ulbrich on PresidentialElections building Open Source software. Open source also offers concrete advantages in a campaign environment, where people are both chronically short on time and reluctant to spend money on anything but Advertising and Fund Raising, Wesley Clark technology director Josh Lerner said.

• Lots of people and businesses don't like to pay for all sorts of things. Sounds like Corporate Welfare to me... Of course generals and governors (and Democrats) are used to pretending that stuff is free...

• I wonder if the unpaid developers like to think of their time not having the value of TV time?

• Ah, the thrill of building mass-mailing software. Hey, maybe the world will get some Open Source CRM software next...

• I wonder how the Howard Dean supporters will feel when their software gets used by Karl Rove?

• Dave Winer says Wouldn't it be great if Dean and Clark went after ViaCom, Clear Channel and Time Warner, instead of the tiny companies that make blogging and social networking tools?

• John Robb says I think it is indicative of these new guerrilla movements that they create their own Social Software.