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Sun Microsystems Chair Touts Open-Source Education for K-12 Kids

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 17, 2007

“Since Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Scott McNealy stepped
down as CEO to focus on his chairmanship full-time, he’s been
spearheading a side project to transform education the way digital
music upended the recording industry.

“Though it’s not part of his official duties at Santa
Clara-based Sun, McNealy is spending a lot of time as pitchman for
a project called Curriki–short for curriculum and wiki, which is a
Web site allowing users to add and modify content and claim a piece
of authorship…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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