What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?

gov_coder writes "Back in January of 2009, various news articles announced that former Sun CEO Scott McNealy was to become the Obama administration's Open Source Technology adviser. Currently, however, a search for Scott on the whitehouse.gov website yields zero results. Searching a bit more, I found that Scott is currently working on CurriWiki, a kind of Wikipedia for school curriculum. So my question is, what happened? Did some lobbyist block the appointment? Did Scott decide his other activities were more important? Scott, if you are out there — please tell us what happened. There are many people working in government IT, such as myself, who were really excited about the possibilities of an expanded role for open source software in government, and are now wondering what went wrong."

Comments

Not a lobbyist

[endikos]

A lobbyist cannot block an appointment. A lobbyist is someone that beseaches an appointed or elected official on behalf of someone else, usually a special interest group or corporation. Look it up.

Re:Isn't It Obvious?

[bigredradio]

Let me fix this for you.
s/Microsoft/Oracle/g
s/Silverlight/Java/g

Re:And the answer is...

[lemur3]

It was just another lie from the WH. More broken promises.

who would have modded this informative?

who would have modded that a troll?

Re:I've never met the man.

[alta]

you mean because they are all capitalist? Yeah, you're right. They'd be run out as soon as it's found out they like making as much money as they can. Forget that they all give massive amounts to charity and provide jobs to massive amounts of people.