id so much rather see cerf , cause to me bezos or ballmer would be almost like political with their oath to company etc etc etc, cerf is prolly inherently a good person
-- tony Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like Vint Cerf for that position, he has experience in both the > public and private sectors and his experience goes back very much > pre-internet hype. And maybe he could help make IPV6 adoption really > happen. > > Felten might not be bad, I don't recall what he's done in the private > sector though. > > Ballmer and Bezos are both more business-dudes than CTO's. Big names, > yeah, but not really technologists. Besides, Microsoft has had its > share of being sued by the government and Bezos, while a visionary in > all sorts of ways, steadfastly refused to be profitable, always going > for growth over execution. A fascinating embodiment of the first > mover advantage theory but I'm not sure if I want that in a national > CTO. > > Judah > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Good idea. I wonder if Ballmer or Bezos would accept. Tough call to abandon >> the company in which you own billions in stock in a bad economy. >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Gruss wrote: >> >>> Good for us techies!! >>> Among the candidates who would be considered for the job, say >>> Washington insiders, are Vint Cerf, Google's (GOOG) "chief internet >>> evangelist," who is often cited as one of the fathers of the Internet; >>> Microsoft (MSFT) chief executive officer Steve Ballmer; Amazon (AMZN) >>> CEO Jeffrey Bezos; and Ed Felten, a prominent professor of computer >>> science and public affairs at Princeton University. >>> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275963 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
