Linux.com on the candidates

Linux Dot Com has a piece comparing Obama and McCain. Here. This will be important to anyone with an interest in Open Source technology, the intertubes, all that stuff.

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I first encountered UNIX when it was a toddler, in 1972, while I was at Bell Labs, where it originated. Much later, like many programmers who had long experience with the real thing, I was pretty skeptical about Linux.thanks for more information.....