[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“With a tech-savvy president in the Oval Office, it makes
perfect sense for Obama and his team to be adopting open-source
software. For example, Obama and his team started using Drupal (a
popular open-source CMS [content management system]) and Linux to
run Web sites back in February. The first Federal site to make the
jump to Drupal was Recovery.com, which tracks Recovery Act
spending.“You probably only noticed that transition if you were a Drupal
user. Now, though, Obama and his staff have switched the White
House’s own Web site to Linux and Drupal. The executive branch’s
programmers made the change to the White House site not because
they wanted to change its look; according to an AP report and my
poking around the site, the White House site looks the same as
ever. The reason why they made the change was the reason why many
people switch to Linux and open-source programs: it’s more
secure.”