DISQUS

VentureBeat: Chopra named Obama CTO, White House tech plans coming together

  • Tim O'Reilly · 8 months ago
    The quote at the end of the paragraph that you attribute to Chopra was my reflection on a conversation we had, not an actual quote from him. There were no actual quotes from Chopra in the piece that I wrote, and that you quoted from.
  • Eric Eldon · 8 months ago
    Oh, right. Thanks, Tim. I've fixed.
  • Neeta Bas · 8 months ago
    Why do you have a chief information officer, a chief innovation officer and a chief technology officer manning three individual posts? I bet you gonna have pretty much overlapping on their working.
  • Tech Worker · 8 months ago
    So what is his position on H-1B.
    Does he believe there is a shortage of tech workers and the US should continue to bring in hundreds of thousands of overseas workers (at tax payer expense) to take US jobs?
    He is "not a technical person"... a promoter?
    The article forgot to mention he played a huge part in the Democratic Convention.
  • Tunnel Rat · 8 months ago
    It's a little bit too late to sing Kumbaya, now that 3-4 million American I.T. workers have been displaced by the likes of Chopra and his cronies operating the bodyshops, flooding government I.T. jobs with H-1Bs and L-1s, and exploiting indentured servants from India - the so-called "guest workers" that for some reason refuse to leave.

    Articles like this make me want to vomit. What, everybody in I.T. has to be Hindu or of Indian decent? Americans invented the software industry, but suddenly we're an inferior race that needs to be purged out of I.T.?

    WTF?
  • Mike · 7 months ago
    With your attitude and low level of acceptance maybe you should be purged.
  • ryan0001 · 6 months ago
    i cant believe he outsourced the white house cto. i dont have a problem with diversity, but enough indians in 'american' technology. he could at least hired a black person. what a schmuck.