What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser? 296
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."
Isn't It Obvious? (Score:4, Funny)
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).
He was replaced... (Score:5, Funny)
...with a small shell script.
Who wants to know? (Score:5, Funny)
Who wants to know?
Re:And the answer is... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:He was replaced... (Score:1, Funny)
eh I modded this informative
I meant +funny
He's abandonware (Score:5, Funny)
Open sourced it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't It Obvious? (Score:5, Funny)
in other words.....
Eaten by a Grue?
Re:Isn't It Obvious? (Score:2, Funny)
"Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs"
Wow, you're so generous allowing those lucky 14 people the opportunity to kiss your behind.
Re:Not a lobbyist (Score:5, Funny)
Did you learn everything about politics and government from Schoolhouse Rock?
Well...... yes.
Re:Not a lobbyist (Score:3, Funny)
Did you learn everything about politics and government from Schoolhouse Rock?
Actually, I think that was the Simpsons.
Re:Isn't It Obvious? (Score:4, Funny)
He was outsourced.
yes, that's right, the OpenSource Advisor was Outsourced to India. He now goes by the title Indian Outsourced OpenSource Advisor. (But his friends call him Bob)
Re:And the answer is... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Isn't It Obvious? (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, it all started like this:
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of the White House, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
> open mailbox
Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.
> read leaflet
(taken)
"WELCOME TO POLITICS!
POLITICS is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No country should be without one!"
Re:Isn't It Obvious? (Score:3, Funny)
well, how good is the pay at that behind kissing job? I spent 2yrs unemployed. If your butt pays more to kiss, then let me send you my CV.
Re:And the answer is... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not a lobbyist (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Confirmation hell? (Score:3, Funny)
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?
First time I read that... (Score:3, Funny)
... I read "shill script".
Time for coffee.