] Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi has admitted on numerous
] occasions (including this Slashdot post) that his time in
] Silicon Valley affected his thinking about politics. "I
] used to work for a little while for Progeny Linux
] Systems," Trippi told cyber-guru Lawrence Lessig in an
] August interview. "I always wondered how could you take
] that same collaboration that occurs in Linux and open
] source and apply it here. What would happen if there were
] a way to do that and engage everybody in a presidential
] campaign?"

Wow, I had no idea that Joe Trippi worked with Ian....