Actually it's important as the lines are becoming clearer between who is a liberal and supports policies like Mass's, and who doesn't.
Allowing open access to public records is liberal? Preserving records in a format which someone can work with 100 years from now is liberal?
Hmm, here's one of the icons of the open source movement, Eric Raymond, writing for front page magazine.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19658
Yes there are a lot of leftists in the "open source" movement, but in reality the "open source" movement is libertarian in nature. BTW, if you haven't noticed free republic is ran on Apache and not IIS. It's probably coded in Perl too.