“Four more years. This happened because of you. Thank you,” Obama tweeted soon after he defeated his Republican rival Mitt Romney in a closely contested 2012 US presidential poll.
Well, we are aware of the fact that the President of the United States of America and his tech team were all over the Internet embracing different kind of tools -may be from social media or from different online campaigns – to win the 2012 presidential elections, but many of us are not aware that open source software also played an important role during the US elections.
Yes, according to arstechnica.com, President Barack Obama’s campaign underspent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the money instead into building an internal tech team.