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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."
What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?
He was invited to One Microsoft Way in Redmond, WA and while there discussing standards had a very unfortunate ... shall we say ... "accident?" Which left his voice sounding very metallic and his movements very jerky and unnatural. It was shortly after this that he stood up at the next White House IT meeting and declared, "Whitehouse.gov should be running on Silverlight and Silverlight only let's set so double the killer delete select all blue blue blue blue blue blue ... " At which point the administration decided that it just wasn't working out and removed the position quietly altogether and unexisted Mr. McNealy (or what was left of him anyway).
My work here is dung.
...with a small shell script.
Who wants to know?
Even the Teabaggers from Glenn Beck's website get to post as AC. Pussies.
He's still got a page at Sourceforge, but he hasn't been updated in months and his developer stopped answering emails.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It's even more obvious than you think. He's open-sourced the advisory position so anyone can fill the position and make changes.
Did you learn everything about politics and government from Schoolhouse Rock?
Well...... yes.
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Did you learn everything about politics and government from Schoolhouse Rock?
Actually, I think that was the Simpsons.
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
Who would have modded that recursive?
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion Check out the "Did you mean:" option.
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I'm an amendment to be
Yes, an amendment to be
And I'm hoping that they'll ratify me
There's a lot of flag burners
Who have got too much freedom
I wanna make it legal
For policemen
To beat 'em
'Cause there's limits to our liberties
'Least I hope and pray that there are
'Cause those liberal freaks go too far.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I have never seen any party be this good at it. It's working out well for them. The constant repetition of bald face lies is shaping public opinion.
Which party are you referring to?
... I read "shill script".
Time for coffee.