not restrict the use of software -- only its distribution . This distinction is subtle but should be maintained; as for me I always Zlib-license my software where I can because I don't want to cause problems for people who wish to distribute my software, either. Because he isn't one of their good ole boys. The same thing happened in the nineties with Clinton. Except this time, you are absolutely fooling yourself if you don't think skin color has something to do with it. (Hint: A popular bumper sticker slogan in the South and even the more rural parts of places like Pennsylvania is: "2012: Don't Re-Nig".) I actually look forward to reading the history of this in 20 years as people smarter than me put together how it happened. It is really very confusing to me. The Christian nutcases whom Barry Goldwater feared would take over the Republican Party, did take over the Republican Party. I don't know the exact details of how it happened, but I suspect it really got rolling when certain Christian groups observed the overwhelming success of the leftist hippie movement and began applying some of its propaganda techniques, creating the "Jesus People" and other such evangelical movements which appealed to the moral conservatism of a broad spectrum of the American population. Anecdotally, Christian nutcase and Internet legend Jack T. Chick claims to have derived his cartoon tracts from Chinese communist leaflet propaganda in comic form. There are probably a lot of these things that