Obama wants to know: Why open source?

news.cnet.com — President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that he's been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source. Jan 22, 2009 View in Crawl 4

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mastercosby Jan 22, 2009

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I hope you are still in middle school.

typhoon2009 Jan 23, 2009

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What is ^H^H^H?

bono4u Jan 23, 2009

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i am not sure that this was racist comment.I didn't know Tiger Woods is black(sry not much of a golf fan and haven't got a TV)And even if i had known, the commented pointed out positiv things and was not hatefull."well so far so good I think." What kind of an racist would bond with one of a different "race/color/.."?"sorry for the stupid analogy"This could lead to a comparison of the status/position/job of a golfer and a president, so that has not to be a racist implication.

benow Jan 23, 2009

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^H or control-h is the ascii character which represents backspace on terminals. So, this^H^H^H^His nothing

Closed Account Jan 24, 2009

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wow... the optimism... its cute. when in rome, my man. when in rome.

init100 Jan 24, 2009

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@HraesThere is no canonical spelling of Usama bin Ladin in the Roman alphabet, since the original word is in Arabic. There are several transliterations though, one of which is Osama, and another which is Usama. The same applies with Ladin, which is a transliteration of the original Arabic word, just like Laden, the version most commonly used in the United States.