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Open Source Wins Presidential Election in 2000

Randy writes:

Open Source wins the 2000 election hands down. Of 14 possible
candidates, 11 are running some form of the Apache web server. Only
2 run non-Unix operating systems; both Liz Dole’s and Dan Quayle’s
run Windows (hmm, why am I not surprised at these two).

According to Netcraft’s “What’s that site running?” service,
http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats
– next year’s presidential hopefuls are running the following
(alphabetically).

Bill Bradley www.billbradely.com: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix)
FrontPage/3.0.4.2 PHP/3.0.5 on Solaris

Pat Buchanan www.gopatgo.org: Apache/1.2.5 on FreeBSD

Harry Browne www.harrybrowne2000.org: Apache/1.2.5
FrontPage/3.0.4 on BSD/OS

George W. Bush www.georgewbush.com: Apache/1.2.3 on BSD/OS

Elizabeth Dole www.e-dole.org: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or
Windows 98

Steve Forbes www.forbes2000.com: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 on
Solaris

Al Gore www.gore2000.com: Apache/1.2.0 Ben-SSL/1.8 on Linux

John Kasich www.kasich.com: Apache/1.1.3 on Linux

Allen Keys www.keyes2000.org: Apache/1.3.1 (Unix)
FrontPage/3.0.4.2 on Solaris

Russell A. Lacasse (who??) w3.ime.net/~lacasse: Apache/1.3a1 on
BSD/OS

John McCain www.mccainforpresident.org: Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.4
FrontPage on IRIX

Bob Smith www.smithforpresident.org: Apache/1.3.0 (Unix)
FrontPage/3.0.4 on Linux

Dan Quayle www.quayle.org: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows
98

And of course –

Jesse “The Body” Ventura www.presidentventura.com: Apache/1.2.6
FrontPage/3.0.4 on Linux

Finally, Intellectual Capital, http://intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue189/item2537.asp,
reviews some of theses site and calls Forbes2000.com: The Killer
App for 2000. (There’s a “talk-back” at the bottom of the
article.)

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