Hey Everyone,
I have a question for you the group:
<h5>Have any of the 2008 candidates ever even heard the words 'open' and 'source' used together in a sentence?</h5>
My guess is probably not, which is sad. Think about the current issues around patent reform. Does open source play a role? If so, shouldn't the candidates have some basic knowledge of open source?
It's with that in mind that I put together a little survey on my blog. Now this isn't a scheme to drive traffic. I really want to know what people think. So, I'm writing you to provide you with both the link to the poll, as well as the code to embed the poll on your own site if you'd like:
http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/who-is-best-for-open-source-in-20 08
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<b><i>Again, the goal here is to get as many people's opinion as possible</b></i>. Please feel free to not only add the poll to your site but to help get other key influential bloggers in the open source world to do the same (your list is probably better than mine). In fact, <b>write your own blog about this</b> (you don't even have to reference mine). As long as we all use the same poll we can easily share the results (and not fragment things) with everyone. In a perfect world I'd love to see 100k+ people share their opinion over the next week. That will take each of us working together to get this poll on as many websites as possible.
I'd also welcome any comments (pro or con about this) either via email, or preferably on <a href="http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/who-is-best-for-open-source-in-20 08">my blog and out in the open where everyone can participate in the discussion</a>.
Let me know what you think,
whurley
