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US Government Sets Up Online "App Store"
krapper writes "The Obama administration has unveiled a government 'app store' designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing. The change means some federal employees will begin using services like YouTube, Gmail and WordPress, which store data on private internet servers instead of on those paid for with public money. The process will start small but will ramp up quickly, Vivek Kundra, the US chief information officer, said in a blog post on Tuesday. 'Our policies lag behind new trends, causing unnecessary restrictions on the use of new technology,' Kundra writes in the post on WhiteHouse.gov. 'We are dedicated to addressing these barriers and to improving the way government leverages new technology.' The app store is designed for federal employees doing official government business and is not intended for use by the public."
i always found it weird from a European perspective, that the American government were so behind when it comes to transparency. we are also more trusting towards government, compared to what i know of America.
If I were in a small business and called their samba share that had the install images of Office, Acrobat, and other licensed packages for internal use an "app store", I'd be looked at by their IT people like I was some troll or pirate.
You would? I'm pretty sure they'd look at you like you were some kind of mac user. I mean, it's the apps share, not a store. Though technically, it is a store, but not in the fiscal-exchange-for-goods sense - but that's beside the point.
Anyway, an "app store" is just that: a place where apps are stored. You sometimes exchange money for them. Usually, money is exchanged. Somehow, I suspect money will be exchanged here. There always is when government is involved.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Is it considered a troll if it's true? Obama IS a liar, and fascist.
fasâ...cism â" noun
1. A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Exactly how is America NOT either currently or on its way to currently fitting all of the aspects of the definition of fascism? Obama's entire platform is based on racial revenge, controlling EVERYTHING, and suppressing dissent. He's got to be shitting himself now that people are finally starting to wake up to who and what ACORN is and how deeply in bed with them he is...