You are here  Barack Obama proves the power of Open Source  It
would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the
2008 election because his website ran open source software while
John McCain's ran on proprietary software. But what is not a
stretch at all is that Barack Obama's campaign built a powerful
synergy between grass-roots politics and grass-roots technology,
while presenting what many consider to be the most disciplined
campaign of any candidate in modern history.  That combination
of synergetic innovation and single-minded discipline produced
this amazing commentary from conservative commentator Alex
Castellanos on CNN's election night coverage, captured here by
YouTube:  For those who'd like to do their homework and
understand Castellanos's sources, the book he references is The
Cathedral and the Bazaar. The connection between the failing
industrial model practiced by companies like Microsoft compared
with the organic open source development model is detailed in a
whitepaper I published