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Obama Looking At Open Source?
An anonymous reader writes "'The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through Open Source technologies and products.'
The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley's most respected business leaders Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
He revealed he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject for the new administration."
Is CmdrTaco masturbating furiously.
Of course the government looks at, and likely uses, Open Source. What's next, "Obama decides to eat breakfast" and we all drool and slaver over THAT piece of minutiae?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
...it's to drive MS and other software companies into bankruptcy just to chase some hippie ideal.
Go ahead mark me troll, but have any of you seriously given thought to what will happen if open source were to become the norm and all these people were out of work, being asked to volunteer the skills they once got paid for?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Sun? hahahahahahaa (--- LOL)
I bet at this point Bill Gates and top execs at MS wish they hadn't given so many campaign contributions to Republicans and conservative causes.
Wow, you're just sad and pathetic. Even now, Bush Derangement Syndrome taints your posts so much that you had to speculate on a non-scenario involving his non-replacement. Your right to vote really should be revoked - assuming you're even 18.
They want, for example, a firewall system for their OS. So they write one. Their need sated, they let people have it for free. It costs them nothing to do so (since their need was for a firewall and they paid for it by writing one). It costs no more to let people have it than to keep it secret.
Other people want a firewall that works with a VPN. So they take the free firewall the others made and add VPN knowledge to it. Their need sated and the cost paid for (by their time) and the benefit offsetting that cost (having a firewall that knows about VPNs) they give it to others to use.
The first group now has a better firewall and didn't have to pay for it.
Truly free.
You seem to be a democrat. I'll explain it. Some one not you was forced to spend their resources to develop said product. Two people/entities in your example paid for work or had their in house guys develop the app and release it. Now in both cases the entities still had to pay those developers to write code. Even if I were a third party, and to me I never paid a cent to it, but use it, the software isn't totally free. Some one (not you) paid for it. It's like the platform give everyone the toys that they want and ignore where the resources to pay for it actually come from. I guess lots of people like getting stuff "for free" when they aren't the ones that are being forced to pay for it. Sooner or later everything rolls around and you'll have to pay for it if you need/want anything done.
You could also stop being a fanboy/puttz and not have people running linux that are barely able to use computers in the first place unless you are going to hand hold them the entire time.
Any one of those people who had problems now has a sour taste in there mouth about Linux because you pushed something on them that you shouldn't have just to further your ideals. You weren't considerate to them at all, only in what you saw as another way to promote what you think is the best OS for everyone.
I don't like the Windows desktop but I don't go out trying to change the world to use what >I THINK is best because contrary to what you and I may think about Linux being the best thing since sliced bread, its not, not for everybody anyway.
Do because you should, not because you can.
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