Political Penguin

This topic will become a bit of a theme as time goes by but I am very much an open source supporter when it comes to pretty much everything software related.
I use it because it is the best methodology for development in programming and with a few exceptions, it all tends to be free unlike the propriety world of Microsoft.
This site as I mentioned in my very first post, is built entirely utilising open source systems and given that some other poor bugger sat down and wrote the software that I’m using I feel it my duty to pay my thanks by acknowledging the fact.
Now legally speaking you haven’t got to do this, it’s purely one of those ‘netiquette’ things, one of those unwritten codes adherred to by honourable techies. That’s why this really annoys me.
No, not the Express & Star, although there is plenty to annoy me about the crap it produces dressed as journalism. What I’m referring to is that a couple of months ago they completely overhauled their website and from a techie perspective I was quite impressed and decided to have a look at the architecture behind it.
Low and behold I find a very familiar content folder in the sites page source. It is that of a nifty little bit of open source software called WordPress which is basically a blog system. Now I searched high and low for some acknowledgement but for some reason the Express & Star doesn’t feel a need to do so.
If you doubt my words, as indeed you might, then try this link.
Hey presto, their WordPress login page. Now being the curious person that I am, I decided to e-mail the Express & Star on the 25th of October to ask them why they don’t acknowledge the use of WordPress. I am still waiting for a response.
So for those who enjoy playing around, I suggest you look here as some muppet doesn’t know how to use an htaccess file.