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GeekPAC

Linux-boosters are ramping up a public policy effort which may even include a federal political action committee, the so-called GeekPAC. That may get some cutesy attention from the political press, but I agree with John of Genehack, who instead advocates that Linux fans do what they do best: build an app that congressional offices would find indispensable and might force them to reconsider their attachments to Microsoft. Because Microsoft is loaded with cash and has plenty of employees who can pony up $5,000 a year for the company PAC, campaign contributions isn’t the best way to advance open source with lawmakers. Getting the government (not just Congress) to use more open source software is.