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Re: Obama asks McNealy for advice on Open Source

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____/ George Barca on Friday 23 January 2009 18:27 : \____

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:47:41 -0800 (PST),
> "nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>>[But McNealy a bad choice for the job.]   Asking Scott McNealy to
>>write a paper about open source software is a bit like asking Dick
>>Cheney to write a paper about government transparency.
> 
> That's very funny!
> 
>>Better than asking Bill Gates.
> 
> I had the pleasure of meeting Scott at a convention many years
> ago and he was quite interesting! He's a very dynamic person.
> Asking Bill Gates would have been much worse.
> I'm impressed at how quickly the Obama team is moving toward
> change, not to over use the term. I would like to see a
> combination of Apple and Linux in government. It's good to see
> the DoD moving toward Linux.

They began years ago (mostly Red Hat). It's supposed to be a complete migration
and Microsoft is frantic about it.

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