For those wanting to know how invested Obama will be towards technology, you have an answer. According to BBC, Obama has called upon Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems to write a proposal on open source software.

$400 billion, that’s an estimate of how much the US spends in proprietary software in a given year. You can believe a huge chunk of that change is coming from our government. Now, don’t get me wrong that $400 billion goes to providing jobs for people, and is overall good for the public sector. But, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s what our government should be engaging in.

It always bring a smile to my face, when the government looks at ways to cut spending. Not to mention that doing could also greatly enhance the security of our infrastructure. Open Source is a wonderful place to start, and in the long run could easily save the government billions of dollars in spending.

So, I just wanted to send a kudos out to Obama for looking into the wonderful world of Open Source. Here’s hoping you take a gander at McNealy’s proposal and find a legitimate software investment for the government.

[via: BBC]

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