A Federal IT Contractor Makes the Case Against Open-Source Obamacare | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
From www.businessweek.com - October 19, 2013 6:09 AM

Kendall Clark is the founder and chief executive of Clark & Parsia, a 10-person software product and service firm that does development and R&D in enterprise semantics. He has worked for and with several federal agencies, including NASA and the National Cancer Institute. After my essay in this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek, “The Obamacare Website Didn’t Have to Fail. How to Do Better Next Time,” was posted, Clark (with whom I once worked at the website XML.com) reached out to tell me that he disagreed with my thesis—namely that open source would lead to fewer failed software projects. He’s not against open-sourcing some government code, but he questions the relationship between opening the code and improving the quality. I asked him a few followup questions.