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2008.07.30 - It's been an interesting 24 hours...

Well, we're off and running, and so far things are going well. Folks have noticed the Challenge, and overall the response has been good. My Inbox is full of suggestions for further goals for the Challenge. So that's all great.

That said, we figured that we'd get some negative email on this, too. And we weren't disappointed on that front, either, although it hasn't been all that much in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to take this opportunity to re-iterate that we're non-partisan. We really are. Believe me, despite what you may think about everyone in the free software world being some sort of crypto-socialist leftist, there are Republicans working at CodeWeavers. There are Republicans working at our PR firm, too. And believe me, we use them as a litmus test as to whether what we're doing is at least moderately humorous, as opposed to just piling on. Granted, you can never make everybody happy (and if you did, what you'd be offering up would probably be such watered-down tripe that it wouldn't be worth it), but for what it's worth, we've at least tried not to be overtly partisan about this. Of course, if you don't want to believe that, I'm quite certain you won't. Onward!

2008.07.28 - Welcome to the Challenge!

Election Season, 2008! I think it's fair to say that here at CodeWeavers we're facing up to the 2008 elections with the same mixture of anticipation and thinly-veiled dread that much of the rest of the country is. And we're expecting to waste just as much time over the water cooler discussing the ins and outs of the respective campaigns as anyone else.

Which is precisely the problem.

Because if we're wasting too much time here, think about how much more time will be wasted over all the water coolers in DC during the coming months. It's not a pretty prospect.

As such, we're doing our patriotic bit to make sure the nation's business keeps getting the attention it rightly deserves. Fortunately, too, when an open-source software company as respected and powerful as CodeWeavers throws down the gauntlet, we're pretty sure that President Bush will take notice. And so it is with great pride, and lofty expectations, that we launch the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge!

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-jon parshall-
COO
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