Obama is Open SourceMan

Or at least he seems to play his cards extremely well. He is asking around about Open Source solutions and perhaps one day he would mandate such solutions for his country. Here is wishing that he will do that sooner than later!

Mr McNealy told the BBC he [edit: Obama] wants to ensure the government does not get "locked in" to one specific vendor or company.

The government ought to mandate open source products based on open source reference implementations to improve security, get higher quality software, lower costs, higher reliability - all the benefits that come with open software.

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