
Ever since the news broke that President Obama
has requested a paper from Sun Chairman Scott McNealy on how the government could best use open source technologies, opinions have been flying around about whether McNealy is the right guy, whether open source is the right prescription,
and more. Having followed McNealy for years, I think he will make better arguments than some people in the open source community think he will. It's also apparent that some people misunderstand the incredible opportunity the government has to reboot its infrastructure with open source technology.