What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 30, 2010 @05:15AM from the get-over-it dept.

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."

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Re:And the answer is... by lemur3 · 2010-04-30 05:25 · Score: 0, Troll

It was just another lie from the WH. More broken promises.
who would have modded this informative?
Re:Sun's "open" play was never convincing for me by ClosedSource · 2010-04-30 05:47 · Score: 0, Troll

Scott was too busy trying to "stick it to the man" (which in this case was Bill Gates) he forgot that he was supposed to be "the man" at Sun.
Re:And the answer is... by TheNumberless · 2010-04-30 07:02 · Score: 1, Troll

Lots of people use their mod points to mean either "+1 I agree!" or "-1 You're wrong, moron!" Sucks, but it's true.