Linux fan to run against Arnie in California election (Silicon.com) [LWN.net]

Linux fan to run against Arnie in California election (Silicon.com)

Posted Sep 5, 2003 21:00 UTC (Fri) by chethcoat (guest, #4535)
In reply to: Linux fan to run against Arnie in California election (Silicon.com) by rknop
Parent article: Linux fan to run against Arnie in California election (Silicon.com)

Well said, rknop. Open software is less and less about technology, and more and more about patents and copyrights: who has and doesn't have the right to use it, who tries to prevent others from using it, who tries to abuse others with it, etc. Important stuff, abysmally covered in the popular media. Keep it coming, LWN.

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Linux fan to run against Arnie in California election (Silicon.com)

Posted Sep 5, 2003 21:13 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm all for publishing articles about relevant politics. The fact that one of the 135 candidates for California governor is an attractive young woman who likes Linux is not relevant politics.

Linux fan to run against Arnie in California election (Silicon.com)

Posted Sep 5, 2003 22:14 UTC (Fri) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]

Isn't it?

Nobody who isn't one of the "party machine" candidates is ever going to get elected if we don't find somebody who has a clue about our issues and attempt to throw their weight behind them, even if that somebody is a dark horse nth candidate.

The only other alternative is to continue settling for one of the two front runners and hoping against hope that they will either accidentally do the right thing free culture wise, or that we'll just be lucky and they'll get by unnoticed as a free culture sort. (I do have hopes that Howard Dean will turn out this way, given that he blogged at Lessig's place, but that he sees blogs as a good way for grassroots organization is the only indication we have that Dean has a clue about technology issues and "free culture" issues. )

-Rob