Obama and Ubuntu! (Updated)

Having a Presidential candidate that understands and uses open source is incredible. A friend dropped me an IM with this blog entry regarding the Obama campaign's use of Ubuntu. I guess this is just one more nail in Obama's coffin for people that can't hack having an intelligent person running the Whitehouse. But I, for one, will really enjoy having Barrack as President because his campaign used Linux in such a practical and vital way. Perhaps he will press the executive branch to run open source stuff more often to save the tax payers some money? Am I hoping for too much there? I think not. There are already some pretty large agencies that are using more and more Linux and open source apps. I wonder if Microsoft's lobbyists will react if open source becomes even more entrenched in goverment. Its happening in so many governments across the world at here at home. With the smart kind of leadership in Washington, I think it will spread like wildfire and really cut tax payer budgets all over this great land of ours.